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Metadata Workbench is the principal reporting tool for metadata.
You can generate reports from most of the products in the Information Server suite, and access these reports from the Reporting console (Web console for InfoSphere Information Server, Reporting tab).

Course code conventions have changed only recently from DX to KM. For the same course (for example Advanced DataStage v8.5) the materials have not changed. So don't worry about the code. The first of the v8.7 classes are beginning to appear; I'm soon to present the one for Business Glossary.

This error might occur, of course, when you're trying to use the Insert Parameter tool, if the parameter does not exist (or no longer exists) in the controlled job.

So what is the rule? First row with first row? Is there perhaps only one row in each source?

Without knowing the rule no-one will be able to help you.

Once the rule is known, the answer will probably involve generating an artificial key on each stream of data.

We don't know either. Waiting for Ravi.K to do the needful.

The topic's been answered. Let the spiral spiral...

No.

The difference between 8.5 and 8.1 is -0.4.

With everything at the same version you shouldn't need MCM.

It should be possible. Are both servers managed by the same domain? If not you need to specify the correct domain in the login dialog.

Unfortunately error code 81001 is "connection closed for an unspecified reason" which is not all that helpful.

The "all columns" pieces are there to support runtime column propagation (RCP). They are reported whether or not RCP is enabled.

This is a government site. Everything is locked down so-o-o tight. There's no Access on the server - just a bare bones O/S before we installed Information Server. I'd be tempted to push back and tell them they don't have a physical data model, and perhaps to insist that they reverse engineer one as ...

Surround the string with double quotes.

The largest uint64 (unsigned BigInt) value is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 which contains 20 digits.

Therefore your expression should allow for up to 20 characters.

Difference between 8.1 and 8.5 is 0.4 (simple arithmetic).

Check the IBM Information Center for what's new in version 8.5.

Why not also check the IBM Information Center to find out what's new in version 8.7, which mandyli has summarized?

DataStage won't accept the colon characters. Perhaps you could use underscores and change them subsequently.