Job Migration issue from release 8.1 to 8.5

adasgupta123 · Post by **adasgupta123** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:49 am

Hi ,
We developed datastage jobs in Datastage Release 8.1 in development environment.Now we are are planning to export the jobs to QA environment which is Datastage Release 8.5.

By general rule it should be backward compatible.I need to know if there are any aspects which we need to take care of .

Thanks and Regards

Avik Dasgupta

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:51 am

Provided that the environments are set up compatibly (for example all node pool names available), you should have no issues at all going from 8.1 to 8.5.

arvind_ds · Post by **arvind_ds** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:54 am

Use InfoSphere Connector Migration tool to migrate the datastage jobs if you want to make use of latest connector stages.

eg

If you are using say oracle enterprise stage,DB2 enterprise stage,teradat enterprise stage etc... in IIS 8.1 version then the connector migration tool will migrate the jobs that contains the above mentioned stages to equivalent connector satges.You may get better performance with connector stages.