
These components are designed to provide much more efficient ways to manage metadata and develop ETL solutions. Components can be deployed based on client need. With the Hawk release, DataStage has created common administration, logging and reporting and this will improve metadata reporting available, compared to prior releases. Quality Stageĭata Quality is highly critical for data integration projects. Earlier releases such as MetaStage, Quality Stages used to add lot of additional overhead in installation, training and implementation. With new release of QualityStage, integration projects using standardization, matching and survivorship to improve quality will be more accessible and easier to use. Also, the developer will be able to design jobs with data transformation stages and data quality stages in the same session. Frictionless Connectivity and Connection Objects Designer is called DataStage and QualityStage Designer in the current release, based on its usage. Managing connectivity information and propagating connectivity information between different environments, has added additional development and maintenance overhead. These new objects help in connecting to remote database connectivity easier. Earlier releases, the development team may need to spend considerable time in resolving connectivity issues with the database.

DataStage 8 will help the team by providing frictionless connectivity and connectivity objects, ensure reusability and reduces the risk of data issues due to wrong connectivity information.

It’s always important to get different options to access data for lookup and accessing over a range is always a better option when data range is available for improving performance. Range lookup has been merged into the existing lookup form and is easy to use.
