Custom Stage

Sanket_Saraph · Post by **Sanket_Saraph** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:07 pm

Hi,

We have a wonderful concept of Custom Stages in DS PX.

Could anyone tell me if you ever created the Custom stage for some meaningful purpose? how?

Thanx in Advance..

Kirtikumar · Post by **Kirtikumar** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:16 pm

Try n search on build ops or custom stages you will find many posts on this topic.

Do you have any requirement to build one or is this question just like the inteview questions?

sudeepmantri · Post by **sudeepmantri** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:43 pm

In datastage designer go to tools-new parallel stage-custom. U will be able to create a stage of your own. I had requirements like separating the header/tailer information from the flat file so, I combined logics of mine and created a stage of my own

jhmckeever · Post by **jhmckeever** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:11 am

Sanket_Saraph,

On our project we've got BuildOps which call QAS (an address cleaning solution) and BankWizard (a sort/account code validation system)

We've got two different flavours of BuildOp for each - A local version which calls the relevant APIs on the local machine, and a client/server version which opens a socket to the relevant server and fires XML at it (and receives an XML response). I suspect this is a fairly typical use of custom stages.

HTH,
J.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:12 am

A BuildOp is different. A Custom stage is one kind of custom stage (!), a BuildOp is another. A Custom stage allows one to use an existing Orchestrate operator in some new and vitally interesting way. Maybe as simple as providing some other/different options.

jhmckeever · Post by **jhmckeever** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:29 am

Thanks Ray ... I didn't pick up on the OP being so specific. I'll be sure to differentiate 'custom' and 'Custom' in future!

J.