It’s time for some restructuring at the DSXchange.
No we’re not razing the house and building from scratch;
the task is more along the lines of moving furniture and reorganizing
closets. Those of you who have frequented the DSXchange for
some time now know your way around, but it’s evident
that newer members aren’t always sure which direction
to head. In order to make things clear we’ve made the
following changes:
FAQs
As is the case with any technology with a growing user base,
questions on the DSXchange are asked, re-asked… and
re-asked. In an attempt to give quality answers to these
questions and lighten the load on those who do the answering
we’ve created the FAQ forums. In short, if you have
a technical question, visit the FAQs
forum. If you’d like to discuss FAQs go to the
FAQ
Discussion forum. For the nitty-gritty details check
out this
thread.
Open Access
Currently all members of the DSXchange have pretty much equal
access to everything - (yes there are some behind-the-scenes
discussions that are hidden to all but the privileged few,
but for the most part every member see everything) - but
that’s about to change. Those members who filled out
their profile with legitimate information when joining the
DSXchange will continue to have full access. Those who ‘rolled
their fingers across the keyboard’ when filling out
their profile will have restricted access. If you’d
like to continue enjoying complete access to the DSXchange
take a moment to update
your profile. It won’t take long, we’ve got
a strict privacy
policy to protect you, and it will help the DSXchange
serve you better.
The DataStage Category
As most of the traffic on the DSXchange is DataStage centric,
we’ve created a DataStage Category. In the DataStage
Category are three forums:
- Ascential DataStage Server Edition
- If you need info regarding how to design your jobs or
job sequences this is the place to go.
- Ascential DataStage Enterprise Edition
- If you’re tackling the brave new world of DataStage
Enterprise Edition (DS EE) and need info regarding parallel
processing and other features centric to DS EE, this is
where you want to go.
- Archives of DataStage Users@Oliver.com
- The Oliver DataStage list server was the place to go
get answers to the most pressing DS needs for many years.
Although that service is no longer available, the Archives
forum has all of the threads from November 2000 to April
2004 when the list server closed.
That covers the changes for now. Stay tuned for future updates
as the behind-the-scenes work to enhance the DSXchange never
stops.
