Tools for managing and administering jobs

Use the Designer client tools to help with managing and administering jobs.

These topics describe the tools that are in the Designer client.

Intelligent assistants
IBM InfoSphere DataStage provides intelligent assistants which guide you through basic InfoSphere DataStage tasks.
Managing data sets
Parallel jobs use data sets to store data being operated on in a persistent form.
Creating and editing configuration files
The Designer client has a tool for creating and managing configuration files.
Message Handler Manager
You can use the Message Handler Manager to control what error messages your parallel jobs can generate.
JCL templates
IBM InfoSphere DataStage uses JCL templates to build the required JCL files when you generate a mainframe job. InfoSphere DataStage comes with a set of building-block JCL templates suitable for a variety of tasks.

Parent topic: Designing DataStage and QualityStage jobs