Need info regarding DS internal file Types

Ravindar · Post by **Ravindar** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 4:26 am

Hi all,

Plz send me any documentation which talks about "Datastage internal file Types"

My emailId is ravindar_ragavan@yahoo.co.in

Thanks in advance

kduke · Post by **kduke** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:41 am

There isn't any except for employees of Ascential. If they give some out then I want a copy.

ketfos · Post by **ketfos** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:30 pm

What exactly do you need ? What is your specific requirement/task you want to achieve?

Ketfos

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 6:51 pm

Not even all employees of Ascential have access to this information.
Ascential's take is that you don't need to know - it works OK and that's all you need to know. Plus, they reserve the right to change it at any version. And it has been changed over time.

If you are a first-line support person, then you should be escalating this question through Ascential support channels. And you will be required to sign a strongly-binding non-disclosure agreement.

There is, of course, the possibility that you could resolve all your questions by first acquiring sufficient skills to hack this kind of database (not available from Ascential, but a sequence of UniVerse training from IBM might thus equip you) then doing so, changing one thing at a time to see which attribute's value got changed in the database.

Some of what you might want to know can be discerned by exporting a project to the documentation tool (doc_tool.mdb), opening it bypassing the Access startup macro (hold down the Shift key or use F11 once into Access), then choosing Tools > Relationships from the menu to produce an E-R diagram of the design-time components (less job sequences) in the DataStage Repository for that project.

Why do you want to know?

Access is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. DataStage is a trademark of Ascential Software Corporation.