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what ETL develoer do in a project from scratch

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:13 am
by cetzhbo
Hello Gurus,

will you please tell me what ETL develoer do in a project from scratch ?

thanks very mcuh!

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:20 am
by chulett
:? Sorry, but you are going to have to rephrase that, perhaps narrow it down a bit. I (for one) have no idea what you are asking.

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:52 am
by cetzhbo
sure, I am DW QA right now, but I want to be a ETL developer. so will you please give me a detail description about the whole process for ETL developing using DATASTAGE . or please recomment where can I get that information.

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:48 pm
by chulett
"will you please give me a detail description about the whole process for ETL developing using DATASTAGE"

That's a pretty tall order and not exactly what we are here for. Seems like your best option would be to get your hands on the "Developer's Guides" pdf manuals that ship with the product. There's one for Server and one for Parallel. All of them can be downloaded from IBM's site, from what I recall, but not all of them are free.

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:20 pm
by ray.wurlod
Enrol in a DataStage Essentials training class. DataStage is no longer a tool that can be used "out of the box" by a novice. At least not effectively.

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 7:17 am
by DSRajesh
datastage job design,job review,testing etc....

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 5:20 pm
by ray.wurlod
If it's the project that's "from scratch" then you have an excellent opportunity to do things right from the beginning - proper metadata management and control, adherence to in-house naming conventions and, above all, documentation. Grasp the opportunity - you won't often get it.

And remember, the statement "we'll do the documentation later" is never true.

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:14 pm
by vmcburney
Have a look at the new DataStage Redbook as it takes you through a DataStage project scenario: DataStage Documentation and Examples in New 660 Page IBM RedBook. Not big on deployment tasks but covers standards and guidelines.