Friday

New Stages in DataStage Version 8

New Stages in Datastage Version 8 A new stage from the IBM software family, new stages from new partners and the convergence of QualityStage functions into Datastage. Apart from the SCD stage these all come at an additional cost.
  • WebSphere Federation and Classic Federation
  • Netezza Enterprise Stage
  • SFTP Enterprise Stage
  • iWay Enterprise Stage
  • Slowly Changing Dimension: for type 1 and type 2 SCDs.
  • Six QualityStage stages New Functions in Existing Stages
  • Complex Flat File Stage: Multi Format File (MFF) in addition to existing cobol file support.
  • Surrogate Key Generator: now maintains the key source via integrated state file or DBMS sequence.
  • Lookup Stage: range lookups by defining checking high and low range fields on the input or reference data table. Updatable in memory lookups.
  • Transformer Stage: new surrogate key functions Initialize() and GetNextKey().
  • Enterprise FTP Stage: now choose between ftp and sftp transfer. Source :