Upgrading to DS8.0
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Upgrading to DS8.0
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Currently we have DataStage 7.5 installed in all our environments.
Is it worth it to upgrade to 8.0? Please guide me to the posting, if any, which discusses the topic
Thanks
Yamini
Currently we have DataStage 7.5 installed in all our environments.
Is it worth it to upgrade to 8.0? Please guide me to the posting, if any, which discusses the topic
Thanks
Yamini
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It is almost certainly not worth upgrading to 8.0, because that version has been superseded by version 8.1 which has fewer bugs.
That said, it's a BIG step. You will need much more server capacity and client machines with minimum 2GB of RAM.
Eventually you will need to upgrade, because eventually IBM will pull support for version 7.5. But that's probably some years off yet - at least two - because that won't happen before version 9 is released, and they haven't even started working on that yet (at least not in anger) - the next version will be either 8.2 or 8.5, depending on who you ask.
That said, it's a BIG step. You will need much more server capacity and client machines with minimum 2GB of RAM.
Eventually you will need to upgrade, because eventually IBM will pull support for version 7.5. But that's probably some years off yet - at least two - because that won't happen before version 9 is released, and they haven't even started working on that yet (at least not in anger) - the next version will be either 8.2 or 8.5, depending on who you ask.
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Odd indeed, we are successfully using wave processing at 8.0.1Sreenivasulu wrote:We installed 8.0 but it did not support wave feature. Hence moved to 8.1
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Some stages don't fully support waves, perhaps that is what was being referred to.
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If you are not embarking on major development I don't see the value to upgrading. If you are using it a lot just evaluate how useful the new functions are: slowly changing dimension stage, range lookups, operational metadata, metadata workbench impact analysis and data lineage across products, advanced find etc.
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