DS 9.1 Windows or Linux
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:22 pm
Hi,
I am looking for an opinion here for the scenario we are in.
We currently have 2 datastage environments 7.5 (running on windows) and 8.1 (running on linux). Since 7.5 is out of support, we have been migrating jobs to 8.1 and modifying the jobs/routines to suit the linux environments(directory paths, commands etc).
Now we have a new initiative to move to 9.1 version of DS, new servers(hardware and software) and we have different opinions on the server OS. Should we continue to be on Linux or switch back to Windows? the reason windows comes up, is at this point we don't have a dedicated linux support, but we have windows support. For the lack of support, our linux server is not patched and so is the case with DS environment. Who ever is supporting windows, advise us to use MKSToolkit which can translate linux commands to windows. Not sure how that suggestion works?Some are leaning towards linux for better performance and memory management and less maintenance.
Can you please come up with your pros and cons of DS on windows vs DS on linux.
I am looking for an opinion here for the scenario we are in.
We currently have 2 datastage environments 7.5 (running on windows) and 8.1 (running on linux). Since 7.5 is out of support, we have been migrating jobs to 8.1 and modifying the jobs/routines to suit the linux environments(directory paths, commands etc).
Now we have a new initiative to move to 9.1 version of DS, new servers(hardware and software) and we have different opinions on the server OS. Should we continue to be on Linux or switch back to Windows? the reason windows comes up, is at this point we don't have a dedicated linux support, but we have windows support. For the lack of support, our linux server is not patched and so is the case with DS environment. Who ever is supporting windows, advise us to use MKSToolkit which can translate linux commands to windows. Not sure how that suggestion works?Some are leaning towards linux for better performance and memory management and less maintenance.
Can you please come up with your pros and cons of DS on windows vs DS on linux.