Welcome to:

DataStage Essentials 8.5

Course code: KM200

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011 Course materials may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the prior written permission of IBM.

5.4

Course objectives (1 of 2)
After completing this course, you should be able to: Describe the uses of DataStage and the DataStage workflow Describe the Information Server architecture and how DataStage fits within it Describe the Information Server and DataStage deployment options Use the Information Server Web Console and the DataStage Administrator client to create DataStage users and to specify the DataStage environment Import and export DataStage objects to a file Import Table Definitions for sequential files and relational tables Design, compile, run, and monitor DataStage parallel jobs Design jobs that read and write to sequential files
Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

Course objectives (2 of 2)
After completing this course, you should be able to: Describe the DataStage parallel processing architecture Design jobs that Combine data using joins and lookups Design jobs that sort and aggregate data Implement complex business logic using the DataStage Transformer stage Read and write to database tables using DataStage ODBC and DB2 Connector stages Work with the Repository functions such as impact analysis Use the DataStage Job Sequencer to build a job that controls a sequence of jobs Understand how FastTrack and Metadata Workbench can be profitably used with DataStage
Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

Agenda: Day 1
Welcome Unit 1: Introduction to DataStage Unit 2: Deployment
Exercise 1: Log on to the Information Server Web Console

Unit 3: DataStage Administration

Exercise 2: Administering DataStage

Unit 4: Working With Metadata

Exercise 3: Importing and Exporting DataStage Objects Exercise 4: Import a Table Definition

Unit 5: Creating Parallel Jobs

Exercise 5: Creating Parallel Jobs
Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

Agenda: Day 2
Unit 6: Accessing Sequential Data
Exercise 6: Reading from and Writing to Sequential Files Exercise 7: Reading and Writing NULL Values to a Sequential File Exercise 8: Working with Data Sets

Unit 7: Partitioning and Collecting

Exercise 9: Partitioning and Collecting

Unit 8: Combining Data

Exercise 10: Using the Lookup Stage Exercise 11: Range Lookups Exercise 12: Using the Join, Merge, and Funnel Stages

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

Agenda: Day 3
Unit 9: Group Processing Stages
Exercise 13: Group Processing Stages

Unit 10: Transforming Data

Exercise 14: Defining a Constraint Exercise 15: Define Derivations Exercise 16: Loop Processing Exercise 17: Group Processing in the Transformer

Unit 11: Repository Functions

Exercise 18: Repository Functions

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

Agenda: Day 4
Unit 12: Working with Relational Data
Exercise 19: Reading and Writing to Relational Tables Exercise 20: Connector Stages with Multiple Input Links Exercise 21: Construct an SQL Statement Using SQL Builder

Unit 13: Job Control

Exercise 22: Build and Run a Sequence Job

Unit 14: Intersecting with Other Information Server Tools

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

Introductions
Name Company Where you live Your job role Current experience with products and technologies in this course Do you meet the course prerequisites?
Those taking this course should have basic knowledge of the Windows operating system and some familiarity with database access techniques.

Class expectations

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011