Is there anybody who work with Fast Track for Datastage?
I have worked for Informatica SCD mapping development through the template. Is this the similar one?
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Similar concept, but not a template per se. Fast Track uses a spreadsheet-like interface for source to target mapping (you can make generic expressions or use DataStage expressions in the derivations, and you can import the same from Excel, for example); Fast Track then generates DataStage jobs based on the information provided.
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No.lstsaur wrote:Fast Track comes with DataStage 7.x? What's Fast Track?
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/in ... fasttrack/
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Good summaries above. FastTrack is about "collaboration"...with a goal of helping foster communication between business analysts and ETL developers. It can import Excel csv files containing business rule definitions (column mappings primarily), and generates Jobs....not super complex ones, but not just simple two-stagers either, as it can apply lookups, joins, and constructs Containers where possible. It's key strength is integration with Information Analyzer results, which can be used to help predict joins, but even better is the various "discovery" features it has for digging into Business Glossary and your existing meta data to help find relationships (helps do things like relate TAX_ID with SSN because they are declared as synonyms in the Business Glossary). The Jobs it generates have all of their links populated, and the rules entered by the business analyst... (such as "please calculate profit by taking the difference between revenue and expenses and multiplying by the quarterly percentage factor")...are placed inside the job in a grid of annotation boxes.
It's not a replacement for the DataStage/QualityStage Designer --- it is intended for the business analyst who is already documenting the business rules that each of us implement in DS.....
I've talked to a lot of sites about it, and while I was a bit skeptical at first, I'm amazed at how many accounts don't have any central control and management of rule development. Spreadsheets, Word documents, emails, hand written notes, yellow-stickies.....all of these and more are being used to outline transformations..... and while in some cases each of us with DS expertise might be doing the interviews and establishing the basis for rules, there are a lot of companies where it's still all done by an "industry" expert business group, and then "thrown over the fence" to the "ETL team".
The eye opener for me has been the number of accounts who are interested in FastTrack and aren't even using or committed to DataStage. It creates its own documented reports, and as noted earlier, takes good advantage of a "mature" Business Glossary.
Ernie
Good summaries above. FastTrack is about "collaboration"...with a goal of helping foster communication between business analysts and ETL developers. It can import Excel csv files containing business rule definitions (column mappings primarily), and generates Jobs....not super complex ones, but not just simple two-stagers either, as it can apply lookups, joins, and constructs Containers where possible. It's key strength is integration with Information Analyzer results, which can be used to help predict joins, but even better is the various "discovery" features it has for digging into Business Glossary and your existing meta data to help find relationships (helps do things like relate TAX_ID with SSN because they are declared as synonyms in the Business Glossary). The Jobs it generates have all of their links populated, and the rules entered by the business analyst... (such as "please calculate profit by taking the difference between revenue and expenses and multiplying by the quarterly percentage factor")...are placed inside the job in a grid of annotation boxes.
It's not a replacement for the DataStage/QualityStage Designer --- it is intended for the business analyst who is already documenting the business rules that each of us implement in DS.....
I've talked to a lot of sites about it, and while I was a bit skeptical at first, I'm amazed at how many accounts don't have any central control and management of rule development. Spreadsheets, Word documents, emails, hand written notes, yellow-stickies.....all of these and more are being used to outline transformations..... and while in some cases each of us with DS expertise might be doing the interviews and establishing the basis for rules, there are a lot of companies where it's still all done by an "industry" expert business group, and then "thrown over the fence" to the "ETL team".
The eye opener for me has been the number of accounts who are interested in FastTrack and aren't even using or committed to DataStage. It creates its own documented reports, and as noted earlier, takes good advantage of a "mature" Business Glossary.
Ernie
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