We've heard quite a few members mention concerns about being prepared for the Enterprise Edition (EE) of DataStage, formerly known as Parallel Extender (PX). If you haven't seen EE, it is similar in concept to Server, but uses significantly different stages and configurations for jobs.

If you want to expand your opportunities by learning EE, the Server to Parallel Transition Lab is just what you've been looking for. Ray Wurlod, the leading poster on The DSXchange, will be walking you through labs and examples specifically crafted to bring you up to speed on developing in EE.

The lab is scheduled to occur right after the IBM Information Integration Live! conference in November. So after the show stay for a few days and increase your skill set. Prepare yourself for the future of DataStage! See you in Vegas!

Audience

Server to Enterprise Edition Transition is a mentored environment that will help experienced DataStage Server developers become acquainted with developing within the Enterprise Edition (PX) parallel paradigm.

• Parallelism principles in server and parallel jobs
• Server and parallel architectures
• Data Sets and File Sets
• Orchestrate framework: operators and schemas
• Configuration: processing nodes, node pools, resources, resource pools
• Sequential files in parallel jobs
• Mandatory and optional, single and multiple properties, sub-properties
• Development and debug stages
• Combining data: lookups and other techniques
• Modifying and transitioning data
• Enterprise stages for database access
• Orchestrate shell (osh)
• Introduction to custom stages

Description

Designing parallel jobs is a rather different skill than designing server jobs, indeed there are some aspects of job design that need to be "unlearned" and other temptations that need to be resisted when someone moves from designing server jobs to designing parallel jobs.

This lab is not meant for untrained developers. It begins with the assumption that the attendee is familiar and competent with the DataStage Server job environment. Quite a few examples are based on how a parallel job solution to a particular design problem differs from a server job solution.

Equipment

A Linux server with DataStage Enterprise Edition will be provided. Students must bring a DataStage capable laptop to the lab to perform the exercises. A wireless connection as well as some 10-baseT connections will be made available.

Date, Location and Price

Date:	Wednesday - Friday, November 16th - 18th, 2005
Time:	9:00 am - 5:00 pm PST
Location:	Marriott Courtyard Las Vegas South 5845 Industrial Road Las Vegas, NM 89118 http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/LASCY
Price:	$2,295, includes lodging (15th - 17th) at the Marriott
Discounts:	The first ten people to register will get a $295 discount.
Registration:	To reserve a seat in the lab click here to submit your contact information.