Though the US market is down and another crisis is looming down, one company that still ruling is IBM. We had ramp downs in my company but that did not stop us from the upgrade. Finally i heard that this year end we are going to update to 8.7
I started working in datastage in 7.5 . Being a programmer i tend to explore things from programming perspective. When i first saw DS i felt it pretty simple when compared to programming but later on during month ends and deployment i realized it DS is challenging in its own way. One of the major problems i faced with 7.5 was that it was pretty slow and most of the people in my team were learning and experimenting.
Finally when 8.1 was implemented in our project we were quite happy due to its parallel processing power. Indeed some of the jobs which were running for long time started running faster. One of the major drawbacks that we encountered was the missing Version control tool. Due to this we had to take the backup of dsx on our own and this was an additional headache when we had trace back or when there were big deployments going.
Now we are getting ready to welcome the 8.7 Datastage in our project. This version of datastage has been extensively used across other wall street firms and is more stable. Hence though an IBM might come with some other versions, my company management has decided to use this version since it is stable.
One of the biggest advantage that i see in 8.5 is that it will be having a version control tool and it guarantees that processing will be faster. Apart from this some of the things that it promises are is that it will be an XML tool , provide more looping features in the transformer.
Waiting to work with 8.5 and see its performance
I started working in datastage in 7.5 . Being a programmer i tend to explore things from programming perspective. When i first saw DS i felt it pretty simple when compared to programming but later on during month ends and deployment i realized it DS is challenging in its own way. One of the major problems i faced with 7.5 was that it was pretty slow and most of the people in my team were learning and experimenting.
Finally when 8.1 was implemented in our project we were quite happy due to its parallel processing power. Indeed some of the jobs which were running for long time started running faster. One of the major drawbacks that we encountered was the missing Version control tool. Due to this we had to take the backup of dsx on our own and this was an additional headache when we had trace back or when there were big deployments going.
Now we are getting ready to welcome the 8.7 Datastage in our project. This version of datastage has been extensively used across other wall street firms and is more stable. Hence though an IBM might come with some other versions, my company management has decided to use this version since it is stable.
One of the biggest advantage that i see in 8.5 is that it will be having a version control tool and it guarantees that processing will be faster. Apart from this some of the things that it promises are is that it will be an XML tool , provide more looping features in the transformer.
Waiting to work with 8.5 and see its performance
