AbInitio Course Contents

Module I: Introduction to Ab Initio Salient Features of Ab Initio Module II: AbInitio Architecture The Ab Initio Co-Operating System Graphical Development Environment (GDE) The Ab Initio Enterprise Meta-Environment (EME) Module III: Sandbox and Parameter details What is sandbox and its usage Public and private parameters Air Project parameter file Module IV: Graph Programming What is graph programming and basic parts of AbInitio graph building What is the Anatomy of Running a Job How do we Connect from GDE to the Server (Run ? Settings) Broad classification of components Editors in the GDE XFR and its usage Module V: Data Manipulation Language Overview (DML) Record Formats DML Expressions Transform Functions Key Specifiers Module VI: Components Dataset Components Input File Output File Intermediate File Lookup file Transform Components Filter by Expression Dedup Sorted Reformat Aggregate Scan Rollup Join Match Sorted Normalize Denormalize Sorted Partition Components Broadcast Partition by Key Partition by Expression Partition by Percentage

Partition by Range Partition by Round-Robin Partition with Load Balancing De-partition Components Concatenate Gather Interleave Merge Database Components Input Table Output Table Run SQL Truncate Table Update Table Join with DB Sort Components Sort Sort Within Groups Partition by Key & Sort Miscellaneous Components Redefine Format Gather Logs Replicate Run Program Thrash

Module VII: Parallelism Component Parallelism Pipeline Parallelism Data Parallelism Multifile and Multidirectories Module VIII: AbInitio functions AbInitio in-build functions User defined functions Lookup fuctions Module IX: AbInitio Testing Testing and Validation of Ab Initio Graphs using Validate Components Compare Records Validate Records Generate Records Compute Checksum Compare Checksum Module X: The Ab Initio Enterprise Meta>Environment (EME) High level anatomy of the EME Relation to sandbox environment Checking in your sandbox Checking out a graph or a sandbox

Locking in order to change an object Tagging Common projects Dependency and Impact analysis

Module XI: Commands air commands m_commands Module XII: AbInitio Best Practices and Performance Tuning Phasing and Checkpoints Sub-graphs Serial Input Vs Multifile Fan-In and Fan-Out

Advanced Abinitio Course Contents

Interval lookups, design patterns & more practice using new aggregation functions with ROLLUP and SCAN Locking, air commands, m_ commands, vector processing using NORMALIZE and ROLLUP, vector functions Dependency analysis, transforms, local & global variables, multistage transforms & aggregation functions in V3.0 for ROLLUP and SCAN

Plans PDL / PDL functions. Vectors. User defined components. Debuging of graphs. Parallel components and their functioning/interpretation. How Abinitio functions in background. New functionality of Abinitio 3.0 Performance tuning techniques and best practices.