Designing DataStage and QualityStage jobs

You design InfoSphere® DataStage® and QualityStage® jobs using the IBM® InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage Designer client.

The Designer client gives you the tools that you need to create jobs that extract, transform, load, and check the quality of data.

The Designer client is like a workbench or a blank canvas that you use to build jobs. The Designer client has a palette that contains the tools that form the basic building blocks of a job:
  • Stages connect to data sources to read or write files and to process data.
  • Links connect the stages along which your data flows.
  • Annotations provide information about the jobs that you create.

The Designer client uses a repository where you can store the objects that you are creating as part of the design process. These objects can be reused by other job designers.

Jobs and their associated objects are organized in projects. DataStage administrators create projects using the Administrator client. When you start the Designer client, you specify the project that you will work in, and everything that you do is stored in that project.

When your job designs are finished they are run in the Director client. No data is moved or transformed until you actually run the job. When you start the Director client, you specify the project that contains the jobs to run.