Datastage History

karthi_gana · Post by **karthi_gana** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:47 pm

Hi All,

I would like to know all the datastage versions and its release year. Where can i find all the information?

nagarjuna · Post by **nagarjuna** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:49 pm

You can get all those info in dsxchange or google it .

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:03 am

Version 1.0 came out in 1997 so you don't have to go back farther than that.

The first version of UniVerse, on which earlier versions of DataStage was built, came out in 1984. It was based on Prime INFORMATION, which first saw the light of day in the mid 1970s.

karthi_gana · Post by **karthi_gana** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:34 am

Thanks Ray.

Can you tell me when 7.5 and 8 was released?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:42 am

Probably, but I'd have to do the same research, so why don't you do it? I'd search for something like "announcement" in conjunction with the product and version, probably looking for press releases.

qt_ky · Post by **qt_ky** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:02 am

Yes, surely you can find that info on the ibm web site. You can also search "lifecycle" or "life cycle" with the product names.

Please search and post your findings here, then you can resolve your own topic.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:20 am

Yah, there's plenty of information out there for the google'n, including articles like this on Tookbox. Vincent McBurney blogs there and has all kinds of DS goodness available including his three part Dickens inspired "Ghosts of DataStage" posts, which the linked article references.