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Posted: **Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:11 pm**

what is metadata server in datastage ?

Posted: **Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:13 pm**

Technically there is no metadata server *in* DataStage.

DataStage is one of many products in the IBM InfoSphere Information Server suite. All of these products use a common metadata model, stored in a common metadata repository, and accessed through services such as the metadata delivery service and the metadata analysis service. These services are, in turn, exposed via an instance of IBM WebSphere Application Server.

Somewhere in all of that is what your interviewer probably intends when asking the question.

Posted: **Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:18 pm**

what does metadata repository contain?

Posted: **Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:41 pm**

Metadata.

All sorts of metadata, produced and consumed by the various products in the IBM InfoSphere Information Suite.

Posted: **Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:47 pm**

Moving this one as well and will lock the duplicate.