New Version of Datastage

snassimr · Post by **snassimr** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:25 pm

Hi !!!

I wonder if IBM plans to issue a new version of Datastage - 8 and where I can read about New features of it

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:35 pm

I had a couple blogs about it, IBM Information Server for Dummies and the old My top ten features in DataStage Hawk and Ray had a good overview of the next release in The Product Formerly Known as Hawk.

snassimr · Post by **snassimr** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:38 pm

Thank you . And nothin About Basic . Why IBM doesnt provide Java for Transformations ?

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:55 pm

Why don't they let me use PL/1 or LISP for transformation, either.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:59 pm

Not LISP. There are few enough parentheses in the world as it is!

Anyway it'd go faster if you wrote the whole thing in assembler. No, wait! Native machine code.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:19 pm

snassimr wrote:Why IBM doesnt provide Java for Transformations ?

Does... Java PACK.

snassimr · Post by **snassimr** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:49 pm

Can you give details ? What is Java PACK how can I use it ?

If there Java PACK in Datastage 7.5.1A?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:55 pm

You'd have to ask your Account Rep for details - it is an optional module that you can purchase for DataStage that allows (from what I recall from the sales pitch) Java integration using a 'Java Transformer'.

Anything more than that you'd need to get from IBM.

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:20 pm

Parallel edition does give you C++ for transformations. Microsoft SSIS will also be allowing C programming for transformations in a future version. Comparisons of server jobs versus parallel jobs shows the C++ of parallel jobs is many times more efficient so for pure performance I don't see a reason to use any other language.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:36 pm

I don't think it's so much about using other languages, Vincent, but rather leveraging existing assets already written in other languages. And no-one said it would be speedy.

Besides, the Java PACK is only for Server jobs IIRC.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:54 pm

Well, in that case you have the External Source, External Filter and External Target stages, not to mention the Execute Command activity in job sequences.

ashik_punar · Post by **ashik_punar** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:05 pm

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all the information you have shared in here.I was wondering if it is possible to get some documentation about the new version.If anyone is having any idea about the source for the same then please guide me.

Thanks in Advance,

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:14 pm

That's easy - it comes with it.

However, to tide us all over until it is actually released, there are the resources noted in Vincent's post - the second one in this thread.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:39 am

If you can find someone who was at the conference, or a friendly IBMer, there are papers available for download. Lots of 'em.

ashik_punar · Post by **ashik_punar** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:51 pm

Thanks a lot for the info Ray.I will try to get hold of someone in IBM.