Datastage Appearance

bdixon · Post by **bdixon** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:27 pm

Hi All,

Do you know of any options on changing the colours / appearance in datastage directory, designer and manager. I want to have different colours / appearance between our development environment and production environment.

Brad

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:23 pm

Not possible in version 5. And not totally possible even in version 7.5 (the current version). Train your people to notice the project name in the title bar. Or use roles to prevent them from getting at production at all!

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:37 pm

Nice idea though. How are you delivering jobs to production? If you use export/import maybe you can put a job description annotation into all your jobs and when you deliver it to production do a search and replace on the export text file to replace the annotation colour property to give it a different colour, or to indicate development or production in the job description.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:09 pm

Or you could put a huge annotation onto the design canvas. Annotations go behind stage types, so your design would still be seen. Change the color setting of this annotation. Hmm...

ranga1970 · Post by **ranga1970** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:37 pm

No two wise people think alike thats why they are wise; excelent ideas these ae really interesting; all know we can have anotations, but reaaly how many of us thought about changing the colour of these anotation in different environ ment.
Comon folks, we should thank and appreciate these geniouses at least once in while, which gives them at least satisfaction and encouragement for the free service they are doing for us

thanks

bdixon · Post by **bdixon** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:11 pm

thanks for the responses guys.... i will see what i can come with from your suggestions