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How did you learn DataStage?
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:48 am
by roy
Hi All,
Recently Arnd poped an interesting question,
How did our community learn to use this product?
Please take a minute to answer this poll
Regards,
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:21 am
by ray.wurlod
I posted as "other" because I was an employee of VMark Software then Ardent Software then Informix then IBM. I learned DataStage by preparing to teach classes and by providing technical support for the product.
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:27 am
by chulett
I voted #1 as that was where it all started. Of course there's been plenty of self-study over the years but classes from Ardent / Ascential and Informix were the foundation. Oh, and for RTI there was #4.
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:31 am
by mikegohl
How about adding number 10 to the poll?
10. I learned by posting questions to the DSXchange forum.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:04 am
by eostic
ditto (Ray's answer) for me.
Ernie
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:53 am
by ArndW
Version 0.0 Beta "Tiger Team" at VMark for me - they threw me at a customer before anyone thought of even planning to write the documentation.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:21 pm
by kumar_s
eostic wrote:ditto (Ray's answer) for me.
Ernie
Oh so you people working together then!
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:12 pm
by chulett
Funny, but the first documentation I received (back in the day when you still got
printed manuals) still said
VMark on them.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:37 pm
by eostic
Indeed! We're all still on the same team (this whole forum!), but many of us also used to have the same folks sign our paychecks....
Ernie
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:51 pm
by ray.wurlod
Did you get PAID ?!!
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:46 pm
by Raftsman
I took both beginner and advance courses through IBM and I still learn more through trial and error. It has been a frustrating learning process and there is very limited knowledge in Canada. I know that IBM want to gain a bigger market but they will need to provide better support. Thank god this forum exists as it is the most valuable way to retrieve information.
Hopefully, this product takes off as there are limited jobs in Canada.
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 3:26 am
by ArndW
Raftsman - for a while (during my wait for my US visa) I was working out of the Toronto office and we had a number of early adopters including Shoppers Drug Mart and I thought that the DS market was doing quite well. Then again, it has been a couple of years... Or are you referring to the Francophone parts of Canada and product support in French?
Orchestrate then Ascential
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:40 am
by devnull
I learned Torrent Orchestrate first on my own then took DataStage classes from Ascential when the product was assimilated into DataStage.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:27 pm
by Raftsman
ArndW, I am located in Ottawa, Ontario. There are only 3 or 4 Datastage shops. Mostly, Server. I hooked up with a contract with the EE version. What worries me is that when the contract ends, I will have limited opportunities to continue with this product unless more departments jump on the bandwagon. I chose to leave a permanent position on the premise that IBM would be able to gain market share. Let hope they can otherwise, I may need to travel to find work. It is a gamble but so far so good.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 3:32 pm
by dsusersaj
I have been working in Mainframes and then moved to datastage when a conversion project came up. This project was to migrate mainframe code to datastage. I was given training but ended up preparing design documents by analysing mainframe code. This was frustrating.
Eventhough I got datastage training , I got to touch it 8 months after training. By that time , I was all away from the basics. Had to depend on some datastage experts in the team for the start up.