MKS Toolkit

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:47 am

Please note that DataStage for Windows version 9.1 is not built on MKS Toolkit but, rather, uses direct Windows system calls.

If you've started relying on UNIX commands and you're on Windows, please consider this point as part of your upgrade strategy.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:02 am

Hello Ray,

I wasn't aware of that; does that mean that jobs don't use a UNIX type fork mechanism anymore?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:31 pm

Haven't researched it that deeply yet, but obviously they will have to use some mechanism for spawning processes. Parallel jobs still use processes (rather than threads) when running on Windows. As, indeed, do server jobs.

eostic · Post by **eostic** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:53 am

The commands stay there....all the convenient stuff is still usable as always.....but the run-time underpinnings have been removed.....except for maybe needing to recompile something, it is a transparent change that is also hoped will increase stability.

Ernie

tbtcust · Post by **tbtcust** » Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:33 pm

Hello all,

I have installed 9.1 client and server on windows 7 64. The InfoSphere Engine Resource Service will not start.

The following is displaced by the service:
"Windows could not start the InfoSphere Engine Resource Service on Local Computer. Error 1075: The dependance services does not exist or has been marked for deletion"

The following is in the windows event log:
"The InfoSphere Engine Resource Service service depends the following service: NuTCRACKERService. This service might not be installed."

It has been written above "Please note that DataStage for Windows version 9.1 is not built on MKS Toolkit but,.."

Is the above true? Do I need to install MKS Toolkit?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:47 pm

Windows 7 is not a supported platform for any of the server tiers (engine, services, metadata repository).

Mike

tbtcust · Post by **tbtcust** » Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:17 pm

Thanks Mike.

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Tue Nov 26, 2013 8:31 pm

Information Server 8.5 was compatible with Windows 2003 and 2008, Information Server 8.7 and 9.1 are only compatible with Windows 2008. When IBM was announcing what was new in version 9.1 they believed the removal of MKS emulation would make the product run more efficiently on Windows.

IBM Analytics Champion 2009 - 2020 · Post by **asorrell** » Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:36 pm

you left off the end to that statement Vincent...

...and those seven Windows-based customers are eternally grateful!

JonMorgan · Post by **JonMorgan** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:23 pm

asorrell wrote:you left off the end to that statement Vincent...

...and those seven Windows-based customers are eternally grateful!

you poor bastards...lol