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I will be there and happy to attend something like a lunch time meetup or Sunday night drinks.

Bridge to cloud would be the fastest option - IBM has released DataStage on Cloud now where you just pick a tshirt size and provision environments almost instantly. This qualifies for Bridge to Cloud pricing where you can try out Cloud pricing for a while and revert back to your current license if i...

Often a report writer makes a label for a column based on context of the report and the space they have. Usually they can abbreviate column headings or labels for ease of use. If the report is title "Customer Churn" they can have a field label called "First Name" instead of "...

There are four sets of views . CMVIEWS, IAVIEWS, IGVIEWS and REMVIEWS. IGVIEWS is terms and rules. CMVIEWS has other information assets metadata. I've written custom views in the past to pivot and flatten out custom attributes. You can also write metadata queries using the IGC query tool and dump th...

Everybody who installs or upgrades to 11.5 DataStage is allowed to turn the Balanced Optimizer on since it no longer requires a separate license and is free with DataStage 11.

Multi Edit is one of the most useful functions in all of IGC. There are a few places in IGC where you can produce a list of business terms that can then be used to open up the multi term editor: - Use the Search function or Advanced Search function. - Click on Glossary-Terms and then use the Filter ...

I'm going to assume that what you have in your Excel spreadsheets is mapping specifications - because you don't get much lineage information out of Netezza, Cognos and ErWin alone. You only really get lineage in Cognos reports back to Netezza and lineage in Netezza views. you don't get ETL lineage o...

Using the Metadata Asset Manager Oracle bridge in version 11.5 fix pack 1.

I am trying to import a table definition using IMAM so it can be profiled but it has a column from a GIS system set to a geometric data type and the import bridge is giving the error "Unsupported data type" for that column and rejecting the table. I would like to import the table and ignor...

The Enterprise Packs and Balanced Optimizer and Optim masking for DataStage became free in DataStage 11.5! You should see the packs available for download in Passport Advantage. The only pack that is not free is SAP - if you want the SAP Pack you need to swap to an Information Server Enterprise Edit...

I prefer to import directly from the database and not IDA so you get the metadata as it was applied to the database including any manual adjustments any DBAs or ETL jobs have made.

I don't think you will have any problems running IGC with a large number of users. You can setup most of the users to be Business Glossary Basic Users which means they can access the Glossary Hierarchy but they will not see the Information Asset menu or query or data lineage. This makes them a very ...

You want to move away from the OCI stage to the Connector stage because IBM are no longer upgrading and certifying the OCI stages against new versions of databases. If you want to keep up to date with the latest Oracle or SQL Server then it's best to use the Connector Migration Wizard to convert all...

Have used it at a couple of places. It is Lombardi BPM - it comes with a couple IGC samples for Business Term and Rule workflow. It basically gives you an Approve button and a Publish button inside workflows so you do not have to use the work flow functions in IGC. It's a very basic workflow functio...

You cannot run any jobs until XMETA is back up.