Learning Basic Programming

anitha_casturi · Post by **anitha_casturi** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:46 pm

Can anyone suggest a good site/PDF/Study Material where one can learn Basic Programming and also one which helps in querying the Universe??
The one which comes with Datastage installation does not help much.

him121 · Post by **him121** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:03 am

there is pdf book available..in datastage online manual for Basic programming....

else for Universe..Query ....i also want some tips on that..

and some thing on..Datastage Administrator Command..

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:31 am

Ascential have on the books, but not scheduled, a class called Programming with DataStage BASIC. It can be offered on demand, as far as I know. It was most recently revised for version 4.x, but the language hasn't changed that much.

UniVerse manuals can be downloaded for no charge from IBM website - you should start with UniVerse System Description, then UniVerse SQL Reference and UniVerse Guide to RetrieVe (SQL and RetrieVe are the two query languages).

Beware that DataStage and UniVerse are no longer identical, but there is a better than 95% overlap still.

anitha_casturi · Post by **anitha_casturi** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:05 am

him121 wrote:there is pdf book available..in datastage online manual for Basic programming....

else for Universe..Query ....i also want some tips on that..

and some thing on..Datastage Administrator Command..

PDF available in Datastage online manual for BASIC programming does not help much. It does not deal with the basics of the basic programming.

anitha_casturi · Post by **anitha_casturi** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:05 am

ray.wurlod wrote:Ascential have on the books, but not scheduled, a class called Programming with DataStage BASIC. It can be offered on demand, as far as I know. It was most recently revised for version 4.x, but the language hasn't changed that much.

UniVerse manuals can be downloaded for no charge from IBM website - you should start with UniVerse System Description, then UniVerse SQL Reference and UniVerse Guide to RetrieVe (SQL and RetrieVe are the two query languages).

Beware that DataStage and UniVerse are no longer identical, but there is a better than 95% overlap still.

I shall check it out.

Anyways Thank you

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:09 pm

At a pinch you could enrol on IBM's UniVerse Database Programming class; however only about 60% of that is relevant to DataStage, the remainder dealing with terminal I/O and other user interactions.
But it is scheduled more regularly than Ascential's.