DX444  Learn about the features of IBM WebSphere DataStage V8 and learn how to build and run DataStage Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) jobs.

Learn about DataStage V8 in its IBM Information Server environment. Learn how to build DataStage parallel jobs that read and write data to and from a variety of data stores including sequential files, data sets, and relational tables. Also, learn how to build parallel jobs that process data in a variety of ways: business transformations, data filtering, data combining, data generation, sorting, and aggregating.  

Training Paths that reference this course are:

• Technical Architect  
• Meta Data Architect  
• Data Integration Architect and Data Integration Developer  
• Meta Data Developer and Meta Data Administrator  

Audience:

This is a basic course for project administrators and ETL developers responsible for data extraction and transformation using DataStage

Skills Taught:

• Combine data using lookup, join, and merge stages
• Create jobs that read from and write to sequential files
• Make jobs that read from and write to a relational database using the connector stages
• Build jobs that process data using transformations, combinations, filterings, sortings and aggregations
• Conduct searches and impact analyses
• Produce job reports
• Construct DataStage users
• Administer the DataStage environment

You should have:

• Knowledge of UNIX or Windows NT administration
• Knowledge of TCP/IP and basic network principles
• Data modeling experience
• Familiarity with Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and relational database access techniques