datastage security features

[ayan]

Could anybody please give me some idea about what are the salient security features that datastage server version has?I actually need to come up with a small presentation to the client.What I can think of at present is that 1)client level authentication 2)server level authentication 3)password values are encrypted. Could somebody give me some pointers?

[ray.wurlod]

DataStage security (in version 7) is implemented by means of

• roles to govern which users can connect DataStage clients and what tasks they can do once connected
  
  operating system permissions to govern who can effect changes
  
  The ability to support encrypted parameters and encrypted environment variables is the usual mechanism for securing these.
  
  Connections to database servers need to provide authentication values, typically from job parameters. These are designed into DataStage jobs as properties of the various stage types that implement the connections.

So you seem to have covered the salient points.