regarding custom stages

vijaykumar · Post by **vijaykumar** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:42 pm

Hi Gurus,
why does particular stage fall in customs category, i mean why is particular stage called custom stage.for eg, why does DRS stage fall under custom stage cateory while ODBC fall under normal category.
i wanted the true meaning of custom stage, plz help me in understanding the true meaning of custom stage.

cheers;
vijaykumar

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:58 pm

Plugins are specific third party technology: Sybase, Oracle, DB2/UDB, Informix, etc. Standard stages are ODBC, Hashed, Sequential, Transformer, etc. DRS is just a pretty wrapper over the database plugins. If you don't install the plugins, you can't use them.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:03 pm

Someone has been playing. There is no 'Custom' Stage Type category out of the box and the DRS stage is delivered under Server/Database.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:14 pm

Almost all plug-in (= optionally installed) stages in server jobs belong to the class CCustomStage. It's simply an internal mechanism that allows them to inherit their fundamental methods and properties.

Nobody has been playing; they are delivered thus from the vendor.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:15 pm

Ok, perhaps internally. I was speaking from a public 'what shows up in the Manager' perspective.