DataStage EE

DataStage Enterprise Edition

Proposed Course Agenda

Day 1– Review of EE Concepts

– Sequential Access

– Best Practices

– DBMS as Source

Day 2– EE Architecture

– Transforming Data

– DBMS as Target

– Sorting Data

Day 3– Combining Data

– Configuration Files

– Extending EE

– Meta Data in EE

Day 4– Job Sequencing

– Testing and Debugging

The Course Material

Course Manual Course Manual

Online HelpOnline Help

Exercise Files and Exercise Guide

Exercise Files and Exercise Guide

Using the Course Material

Suggestions for learning– Take notes

– Review previous material

– Practice

– Learn from errors

IntroPart 1

Introduction to DataStage EE

What is DataStage?

Design jobs for Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)

Ideal tool for data integration projects – such as, data warehouses, data marts, and system migrations

Import, export, create, and managed metadata for use within jobs

Schedule, run, and monitor jobs all within DataStage

Administer your DataStage development and execution environments

DataStage Server and Clients

DataStage Administrator

Client Logon

DataStage Designer

DataStage Director

Developing in DataStage

Define global and project properties in Administrator

Import meta data into Designer

Build job in Designer

Compile Designer

Validate, run, and monitor in Director

DataStage Projects

Quiz– True or False

DataStage Designer is used to build and compile your ETL jobs

Designer is used to execute your jobs after you build them

Director is used to execute your jobs after you build them

Administrator is used to set global and project properties

IntroPart 2

Configuring Projects

Module Objectives

After this module you will be able to:– Explain how to create and delete projects

– Set project properties in Administrator

– Set EE global properties in Administrator

Project Properties

Projects can be created and deleted in Administrator

Project properties and defaults are set in Administrator

Setting Project Properties

To set project properties, log onto Administrator, select your project, and then click “Properties”

Licensing Tab

Projects General Tab

Environment Variables

Permissions Tab

Tracing Tab

Tunables Tab

Parallel Tab

IntroPart 3

Managing Meta Data

Module Objectives

After this module you will be able to:– Describe the DataStage Designer components and

functionality

– Import and export DataStage objects

– Import metadata for a sequential file

What Is Metadata?

TargetSource Transform

Meta DataRepository

Data

Meta Data

Meta Data

Repository Contents

Metadata describing sources and targets: Table definitions

DataStage objects: jobs, routines, table definitions, etc.

Import and Export

Any object in Repository can be exported to a file

Can export whole projects

Use for backup

Sometimes used for version control

Can be used to move DataStage objects from one project to another

Use to share DataStage jobs and projects with other developers

Export Procedure

In Designer, click “Export>DataStage Components”

Select DataStage objects for export

Specified type of export: DSX, XML

Specify file path on client machine

Quiz: True or False?

You can export DataStage objects such as jobs, but you can’t export metadata, such as field definitions of a sequential file.

Quiz: True or False?

The directory to which you export is on the DataStage client machine, not on the DataStage server machine.

Exporting DataStage Objects

Exporting DataStage Objects

Import Procedure

In Designer, click “Import>DataStage Components”

Select DataStage objects for import

Importing DataStage Objects

Import Options

Exercise

Import DataStage Component (table definition)

Metadata Import

Import format and column destinations from sequential files

Import relational table column destinations

Imported as “Table Definitions”

Table definitions can be loaded into job stages

Sequential File Import Procedure

In Designer, click Import>Table Definitions>Sequential File Definitions

Select directory containing sequential file and then the file

Select Manager category

Examined format and column definitions and edit is necessary

Repository Table Definition

Importing Sequential Metadata

IntroPart 4

Designing and Documenting Jobs

Module Objectives

After this module you will be able to:– Describe what a DataStage job is

– List the steps involved in creating a job

– Describe links and stages

– Identify the different types of stages

– Design a simple extraction and load job

– Compile your job

– Create parameters to make your job flexible

– Document your job

What Is a Job?

Executable DataStage program

Created in DataStage Designer, but can use components from Repository

Built using a graphical user interface

Compiles into Orchestrate shell language (OSH)

Job Development Overview

In Designer, import metadata defining sources and targets

In Designer, add stages defining data extractions and loads

And Transformers and other stages to defined data transformations

Add linkss defining the flow of data from sources to targets

Compiled the job

In Director, validate, run, and monitor your job

Designer Work Area

Designer Toolbar

Provides quick access to the main functions of Designer

Job properties

Compile

Show/hide metadata markers

Tools Palette

Adding Stages and Links

Stages can be dragged from the tools palette or from the stage type branch of the repository view

Links can be drawn from the tools palette or by right clicking and dragging from one stage to another

Sequential File Stage

Used to extract data from, or load data to, a sequential file

Specify full path to the file

Specify a file format: fixed width or delimited

Specified column definitions

Specify write action

Job Creation Example Sequence

Brief walkthrough of procedure

Presumes meta data already loaded in repository

Designer - Create New Job

Drag Stages and Links Using Palette

Assign Meta Data

Editing a Sequential Source Stage

Editing a Sequential Target

Transformer Stage

Used to define constraints, derivations, and column mappings

A column mapping maps an input column to an output column

In this module will just defined column mappings (no derivations)

Transformer Stage Elements

Create Column Mappings

Creating Stage Variables

Result

Adding Job Parameters

Makes the job more flexible

Parameters can be:– Used in constraints and derivations

– Used in directory and file names

Parameter values are determined at run time

Adding Job Documentation

Job Properties– Short and long descriptions

– Shows in Manager

Annotation stage– Is a stage on the tool palette

– Shows on the job GUI (work area)

Job Properties Documentation

Annotation Stage on the Palette

Annotation Stage Properties

Final Job Work Area with Documentation

Compiling a Job

Errors or Successful Message

IntroPart 5

Running Jobs

Module Objectives

After this module you will be able to:– Validate your job

– Use DataStage Director to run your job

– Set to run options

– Monitor your job’s progress

– View job log messages

Prerequisite to Job Execution

Result from Designer compile

DataStage Director

Can schedule, validating, and run jobs

Can be invoked from DataStage Manager or Designer– Tools > Run Director

Running Your Job

Run Options – Parameters and Limits

Director Log View

Message Details are Available

Other Director Functions

Schedule job to run on a particular date/time

Clear job log

Set Director options– Row limits

– Abort after x warnings

Module 1

DSEE – DataStage EE

Review

Ascential’s Enterprise Data Integration Platform

CRMERPSCM

RDBMSLegacy

Real-time Client-server Web services

Data WarehouseOther apps.

ANY SOURCE

ANY TARGET

CRMERPSCMBI/AnalyticsRDBMSReal-time Client-server Web servicesData WarehouseOther apps.

Command & Control

DISCOVERDISCOVER

Gather relevant information for target enterprise applications

Data Profiling

PREPAREPREPARE

Data Quality

Cleanse, correct and match input data

TRANSFORMTRANSFORM

Extract, Transform,

Load

Standardize and enrich data and load to targets

Meta Data Management

Parallel Execution

Course Objectives

You will learn to:– Build DataStage EE jobs using complex logic

– Utilize parallel processing techniques to increase job performance

– Build custom stages based on application needs

Course emphasis is:– Advanced usage of DataStage EE

– Application job development

– Best practices techniques

Course Agenda

Day 1– Review of EE Concepts

– Sequential Access

– Standards

– DBMS Access

Day 2– EE Architecture

– Transforming Data

– Sorting Data

Day 3– Combining Data

– Configuration Files

Day 4– Extending EE

– Meta Data Usage

– Job Control

– Testing

Module Objectives

Provide a background for completing work in the DSEE course

Tasks– Review concepts covered in DSEE Essentials course

Skip this module if you recently completed the DataStage EE essentials modules

Review Topics

DataStage architecture

DataStage client review– Administrator

– Manager

– Designer

– Director

Parallel processing paradigm

DataStage Enterprise Edition (DSEE)

Microsoft® Windows NT or UNIX

Designer DirectorRepositoryManagerAdministrator

Extract Cleanse Transform IntegrateDiscover Prepare Transform Extend

Parallel Execution

Meta Data Management

Command & Control

Microsoft® Windows NT/2000/XP

ANY SOURCE

ANY TARGET

CRMERPSCMBI/AnalyticsRDBMSReal-Time Client-server Web servicesData WarehouseOther apps.

Server Repository

Client-Server Architecture

Process Flow

Administrator – add/delete projects, set defaults

Manager – import meta data, backup projects

Designer – assemble jobs, compile, and execute

Director – execute jobs, examine job run logs

Administrator – Licensing and Timeout

Administrator – Project Creation/Removal

Functions specific to a

project.

Administrator – Project Properties

RCP for parallel jobs should be

enabled

Variables for parallel

processing

Administrator – Environment Variables

Variables are category specific

OSH is what is run by the EE Framework

DataStage Manager

Export Objects to MetaStage

Push meta data to

MetaStage

Designer Workspace

Can execute the job from

Designer

DataStage Generated OSH

The EE Framework runs OSH

Director – Executing Jobs

Messages from previous run in different

color

Stages

Can now customize the Designer’s palette

Select desired stages and drag to favorites

Popular Developer Stages

Row generator

Peek

Row Generator

Can build test data

Repeatable property

Edit row in column tab

Peek

Displays field values– Will be displayed in job log or sent to a file

– Skip records option

– Can control number of records to be displayed

Can be used as stub stage for iterative development (more later)

Why EE is so Effective

Parallel processing paradigm– More hardware, faster processing

– Level of parallelization is determined by a configuration file read at runtime

Emphasis on memory– Data read into memory and lookups performed like

hash table

DataStage EE Enables parallel processing = executing your application on multiple CPUs simultaneously– If you add more resources

(CPUs, RAM, and disks) you increase system performance

• Example system containing6 CPUs (or processing nodes)and disks

1 2

3 4

5 6

Parallel Processing Systems

Three main types of scalable systems

Symmetric Multiprocessors (SMP): shared memory and disk

Clusters: UNIX systems connected via networks

MPP: Massively Parallel Processing

note

Scaleable Systems: Examples

• Multiple CPUs with a single operating system• Programs communicate using shared memory• All CPUs share system resources

(OS, memory with single linear address space, disks, I/O)

When used with Enterprise Edition:• Data transport uses shared memory• Simplified startup

cpu cpu

cpu cpu

Enterprise Edition treats NUMA (NonUniform Memory Access) as plain SMP

SMP: Shared Everything

Source

Transform

Target

Data Warehouse

Operational Data

Archived Data

Clean Load

Disk Disk Disk

Traditional approach to batch processing:• Write to disk and read from disk before each processing operation• Sub-optimal utilization of resources

• a 10 GB stream leads to 70 GB of I/O• processing resources can sit idle during I/O

• Very complex to manage (lots and lots of small jobs)• Becomes impractical with big data volumes

• disk I/O consumes the processing• terabytes of disk required for temporary staging

Traditional Batch Processing

Data Pipelining• Transform, clean and load processes are executing simultaneously on the same processor• rows are moving forward through the flow

Source

Transform

Target

Data Warehouse

Operational Data

Archived Data Clean Load

• Start a downstream process while an upstream process is still running.• This eliminates intermediate storing to disk, which is critical for big data.• This also keeps the processors busy.• Still has limits on scalability

Think of a conveyor belt moving the rows from process to process!

Pipeline Multiprocessing

Data Partitioning

Transform

SourceData

Transform

Transform

Transform

Node 1

Node 2

Node 3

Node 4

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• Break up big data into partitions

• Run one partition on each processor

• 4X times faster on 4 processors - With data big enough: 100X faster on 100 processors

• This is exactly how the parallel databases work!

• Data Partitioning requires the same transform to all partitions: Aaron Abbott and Zygmund Zorn undergo the same transform

Partition Parallelism

Putting It All Together: Parallel Dataflow

Source Target

Transform Clean Load

Pipelining

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SourceData

Data Warehouse

Combining Parallelism Types

Putting It All Together: Parallel Dataflow with Repartioning on-the-fly

Without Landing To Disk!

Source Target

Transform Clean Load

Pipelining

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Repartitioning

• Dataset: uniform set of rows in the Framework's internal representation - Three flavors: 1. file sets *.fs : stored on multiple Unix files as flat files 2. persistent: *.ds : stored on multiple Unix files in Framework format

read and written using the DataSet Stage 3. virtual: *.v : links, in Framework format, NOT stored on disk - The Framework processes only datasets—hence possible need for Import - Different datasets typically have different schemas- Convention: "dataset" = Framework data set.

• Partition: subset of rows in a dataset earmarked for processing by the same node (virtual CPU, declared in a configuration file).

- All the partitions of a dataset follow the same schema: that of the dataset

EE Program Elements

Orchestrate Program(sequential data flow)

Orchestrate Application Frameworkand Runtime System

Import

Clean 1

Clean 2

Merge Analyze

Configuration File

Centralized Error Handlingand Event Logging

Parallel access to data in files

Parallel access to data in RDBMS

Inter-node communications

Parallel pipelining

Parallelization of operations

Import

Clean 1

Merge Analyze

Clean 2

Relational Data

PerformanceVisualization

Flat Files

Orchestrate Framework:Provides application scalability

DataStage Enterprise Edition:Best-of-breed scalable data integration platformNo limitations on data volumes or throughput

DataStage EE Architecture

DataStage:Provides data integration platform

DSEE:– Automatically scales to fit the machine– Handles data flow among multiple CPU’s and disks

With DSEE you can:– Create applications for SMP’s, clusters and MPP’s…

Enterprise Edition is architecture-neutral– Access relational databases in parallel– Execute external applications in parallel– Store data across multiple disks and nodes

Introduction to DataStage EE

Developer assembles data flow using the Designer

…and gets: parallel access, propagation, transformation, and load.

The design is good for 1 node, 4 nodes, or N nodes. To change # nodes, just swap configuration file.

No need to modify or recompile the design

Job Design VS. Execution

Partitioners distribute rows into partitions– implement data-partition parallelism

Collectors = inverse partitioners

Live on input links of stages running – in parallel (partitioners)

– sequentially (collectors)

Use a choice of methods

Partitioners and Collectors

Example Partitioning Icons

partitioner

Exercise

Complete exercises 1-1 and 1-2, and 1-3

Module 2

DSEE Sequential Access

Module Objectives

You will learn to:– Import sequential files into the EE Framework

– Utilize parallel processing techniques to increase sequential file access

– Understand usage of the Sequential, DataSet, FileSet, and LookupFileSet stages

– Manage partitioned data stored by the Framework

Types of Sequential Data Stages

Sequential– Fixed or variable length

File Set

Lookup File Set

Data Set

The EE Framework processes only datasets

For files other than datasets, such as flat files, Enterprise Edition must perform import and export operations – this is performed by import and export OSH operators generated by Sequential or FileSet stages

During import or export DataStage performs format translations – into, or out of, the EE internal format

Data is described to the Framework in a schema

Sequential Stage Introduction

How the Sequential Stage Works

Generates Import/Export operators, depending on whether stage is source or target

Performs direct C++ file I/O streams

Using the Sequential File Stage

Importing/Exporting Data

Both import and export of general files (text, binary) are performed by the SequentialFile Stage.

– Data import:

– Data export

EE internal format

EE internal format

Working With Flat Files

Sequential File Stage– Normally will execute in sequential mode

– Can be parallel if reading multiple files (file pattern option)

– Can use multiple readers within a node

– DSEE needs to knowHow file is divided into rowsHow row is divided into columns

Processes Needed to Import Data

Recordization– Divides input stream into records

– Set on the format tab

Columnization– Divides the record into columns

– Default set on the format tab but can be overridden on the columns tab

– Can be “incomplete” if using a schema or not even specified in the stage if using RCP

File Format Example

Fie ld 1

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F ie ld 1

F ie ld 1

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R e co rd d e lim ite r

Sequential File Stage

To set the properties, use stage editor– Page (general, input/output)

– Tabs (format, columns)

Sequential stage link rules– One input link

– One output links (except for reject link definition)

– One reject linkWill reject any records not matching meta data in the column

definitions

Job Design Using Sequential Stages

Stage categories

General Tab – Sequential Source

Multiple output links

Show records

Properties – Multiple Files

Click to add more files having the same meta data.

Properties - Multiple Readers

Multiple readers option allows you to set number of

readers

Format Tab

File into records Record into columns

Read Methods

Reject Link

Reject mode = output

Source– All records not matching the meta data (the column

definitions)

Target– All records that are rejected for any reason

Meta data – one column, datatype = raw

File Set Stage

Can read or write file sets

Files suffixed by .fs

File set consists of:1. Descriptor file – contains location of raw data files +

meta data

2. Individual raw data files

Can be processed in parallel

File Set Stage Example

Descriptor file

File Set Usage

Why use a file set?– 2G limit on some file systems

– Need to distribute data among nodes to prevent overruns

– If used in parallel, runs faster that sequential file

Lookup File Set Stage

Can create file sets

Usually used in conjunction with Lookup stages

Lookup File Set > Properties

Key column specified

Key column dropped in

descriptor file

Data Set

Operating system (Framework) file

Suffixed by .ds

Referred to by a control file

Managed by Data Set Management utility from GUI (Manager, Designer, Director)

Represents persistent data

Key to good performance in set of linked jobs

Persistent Datasets

Accessed from/to disk with DataSet Stage.

Two parts: – Descriptor file:

contains metadata, data location, but NOT the data itself

– Data file(s) contain the data multiple Unix files (one per node), accessible in parallel

input.ds

node1:/local/disk1/…node2:/local/disk2/…

record ( partno: int32; description: string; )

Quiz!

• True or False?Everything that has been data-partitioned must be

collected in same job

Data Set Stage

Is the data partitioned?

Engine Data Translation

Occurs on import– From sequential files or file sets

– From RDBMS

Occurs on export– From datasets to file sets or sequential files

– From datasets to RDBMS

Engine most efficient when processing internally formatted records (I.e. data contained in datasets)

Managing DataSets

GUI (Manager, Designer, Director) – tools > data set management

Alternative methods – Orchadmin

Unix command line utilityList recordsRemove data sets (will remove all components)

– DsrecordsLists number of records in a dataset

Data Set Management

Display data

Schema

Data Set Management From Unix

Alternative method of managing file sets and data sets– Dsrecords

Gives record count– Unix command-line utility– $ dsrecords ds_name

I.e.. $ dsrecords myDS.ds156999 records

– Orchadmin Manages EE persistent data sets

– Unix command-line utility

I.e. $ orchadmin rm myDataSet.ds

Exercise

Complete exercises 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, and 2-4.

Module 3

Standards and Techniques

Objectives

Establish standard techniques for DSEE development

Will cover:– Job documentation

– Naming conventions for jobs, links, and stages

– Iterative job design

– Useful stages for job development

– Using configuration files for development

– Using environmental variables

– Job parameters

Job Presentation

Document using the annotation

stage

Job Properties Documentation

Description shows in DS Manager and MetaStage

Organize jobs into categories

Naming conventions

Stages named after the – Data they access

– Function they perform

– DO NOT leave defaulted stage names like Sequential_File_0

Links named for the data they carry– DO NOT leave defaulted link names like DSLink3

Stage and Link Names

Stages and links renamed to data

they handle

Create Reusable Job Components

Use Enterprise Edition shared containers when feasible

Container

Use Iterative Job Design

Use copy or peek stage as stub

Test job in phases – small first, then increasing in complexity

Use Peek stage to examine records

Copy or Peek Stage Stub

Copy stage

Transformer StageTechniques

Suggestions -– Always include reject link.

– Always test for null value before using a column in a function.

– Try to use RCP and only map columns that have a derivation other than a copy. More on RCP later.

– Be aware of Column and Stage variable Data Types.Often user does not pay attention to Stage Variable type.

– Avoid type conversions.Try to maintain the data type as imported.

The Copy Stage

With 1 link in, 1 link out:

the Copy Stage is the ultimate "no-op" (place-holder): – Partitioners– Sort / Remove Duplicates– Rename, Drop column

… can be inserted on: – input link (Partitioning): Partitioners, Sort, Remove Duplicates)– output link (Mapping page): Rename, Drop.

Sometimes replace the transformer:– Rename,– Drop, – Implicit type Conversions– Link Constraint – break up schema

Developing Jobs

1. Keep it simple• Jobs with many stages are hard to debug and maintain.

2. Start small and Build to final Solution• Use view data, copy, and peek. • Start from source and work out.• Develop with a 1 node configuration file.

3. Solve the business problem before the performance problem.• Don’t worry too much about partitioning until the

sequential flow works as expected.

4. If you have to write to Disk use a Persistent Data set.

Final Result

Good Things to Have in each Job

Use job parameters

Some helpful environmental variables to add to job parameters– $APT_DUMP_SCORE

Report OSH to message log

– $APT_CONFIG_FILEEstablishes runtime parameters to EE engine; I.e. Degree of

parallelization

Setting Job Parameters

Click to add environment

variables

DUMP SCORE Output

Double-click

Mapping Node--> partition

Setting APT_DUMP_SCORE yields:

PartitonerAnd

Collector

Use Multiple Configuration Files

Make a set for 1X, 2X,….

Use different ones for test versus production

Include as a parameter in each job

Exercise

Complete exercise 3-1

Module 4

DBMS Access

Objectives

Understand how DSEE reads and writes records to an RDBMS

Understand how to handle nulls on DBMS lookup

Utilize this knowledge to:– Read and write database tables

– Use database tables to lookup data

– Use null handling options to clean data

Parallel Database Connectivity

TraditionalTraditionalClient-ServerClient-Server Enterprise EditionEnterprise Edition

SortSort

ClientClient

Parallel RDBMSParallel RDBMS

ClientClient

ClientClient

ClientClient

ClientClient

Parallel RDBMSParallel RDBMS

Only RDBMS is running in parallel Each application has only one connection Suitable only for small data volumes

Parallel server runs APPLICATIONS Application has parallel connections to RDBMS Suitable for large data volumes Higher levels of integration possible

ClientClient

LoadLoad

RDBMS AccessSupported Databases

Enterprise Edition provides high performance / scalable interfaces for:

DB2

Informix

Oracle

Teradata

Automatically convert RDBMS table layouts to/from Enterprise Edition Table Definitions

RDBMS nulls converted to/from nullable field values

Support for standard SQL syntax for specifying:– field list for SELECT statement– filter for WHERE clause

Can write an explicit SQL query to access RDBMS EE supplies additional information in the SQL query

RDBMS Access

RDBMS Stages

DB2/UDB Enterprise

Informix Enterprise

Oracle Enterprise

Teradata Enterprise

RDBMS Usage

As a source– Extract data from table (stream link)

– Extract as table, generated SQL, or user-defined SQL– User-defined can perform joins, access views

– Lookup (reference link)– Normal lookup is memory-based (all table data read into

memory)– Can perform one lookup at a time in DBMS (sparse option)– Continue/drop/fail options

As a target– Inserts– Upserts (Inserts and updates)– Loader

RDBMS Source – Stream Link

Stream link

DBMS Source - User-defined SQL

Columns in SQL statement must match the meta data in columns tab

Exercise

User-defined SQL– Exercise 4-1

DBMS Source – Reference Link

Reject link

Lookup Reject Link

“Output” option automatically creates the reject link

Null Handling

Must handle null condition if lookup record is not found and “continue” option is chosen

Can be done in a transformer stage

Lookup Stage Mapping

Link name

Lookup Stage Properties

Reference link

Must have same column name in input and reference links.

You will get the results of the lookup in the output column.

DBMS as a Target

DBMS As Target

Write Methods– Delete

– Load

– Upsert

– Write (DB2)

Write mode for load method– Truncate

– Create

– Replace

– Append

Target Properties

Upsert mode determines options

Generated code can be copied

Checking for Nulls

Use Transformer stage to test for fields with null values (Use IsNull functions)

In Transformer, can reject or load default value

Exercise


Module 5

Platform Architecture

Objectives

Understand how Enterprise Edition Framework processes data

You will be able to:– Read and understand OSH

– Perform troubleshooting

Concepts

The Enterprise Edition Platform– Script language - OSH (generated by DataStage

Parallel Canvas, and run by DataStage Director)

– Communication - conductor,section leaders,players.

– Configuration files (only one active at a time, describes H/W)

– Meta data - schemas/tables

– Schema propagation - RCP

– EE extensibility - Buildop, Wrapper

– Datasets (data in Framework's internal representation)

Output Data Set schema:prov_num:int16;member_num:int8;custid:int32;

Input Data Set schema:prov_num:int16;member_num:int8;custid:int32;

EE Stages Involve A Series Of Processing Steps

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• Piece of Application Logic Running Against Individual Records

• Parallel or Sequential

DS-EE Stage Elements

• EE Delivers Parallelism in Two Ways

– Pipeline– Partition

• Block Buffering Between Components

– Eliminates Need for Program Load Balancing

– Maintains Orderly Data FlowPipeline

Partition

Dual Parallelism Eliminates Bottlenecks!

Producer

Consumer

DSEE Stage Execution

Stages Control Partition Parallelism

Execution Mode (sequential/parallel) is controlled by Stage– default = parallel for most Ascential-supplied Stages– Developer can override default mode– Parallel Stage inserts the default partitioner (Auto) on its input links – Sequential Stage inserts the default collector (Auto) on its input links – Developer can override default

execution mode (parallel/sequential) of Stage > Advanced tab

choice of partitioner/collector on Input > Partitioning tab

How Parallel Is It?

Degree of parallelism is determined by the configuration file

– Total number of logical nodes in default pool, or a subset if using "constraints".

Constraints are assigned to specific pools as defined in configuration file and can be referenced in the stage

OSH

DataStage EE GUI generates OSH scripts– Ability to view OSH turned on in Administrator

– OSH can be viewed in Designer using job properties

The Framework executes OSH

What is OSH?– Orchestrate shell

– Has a UNIX command-line interface

OSH Script

An osh script is a quoted string which specifies:– The operators and connections of a single

Orchestrate step

– In its simplest form, it is:osh “op < in.ds > out.ds”

Where:– op is an Orchestrate operator

– in.ds is the input data set

– out.ds is the output data set

OSH Operators

OSH Operator is an instance of a C++ class inheriting from APT_Operator

Developers can create new operators

Examples of existing operators:– Import

– Export

– RemoveDups

Enable Visible OSH in Administrator

Will be enabled for all projects

View OSH in Designer

Schema

Operator

OSH Practice

Exercise 5-1 – Instructor demo (optional)

• Operators• Datasets: set of rows processed by Framework

– Orchestrate data sets:

– persistent (terminal) *.ds, and

– virtual (internal) *.v.

– Also: flat “file sets” *.fs

• Schema: data description (metadata) for datasets and links.

Elements of a Framework Program

• Consist of Partitioned Data and Schema• Can be Persistent (*.ds) or Virtual (*.v, Link)• Overcome 2 GB File Limit

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What you program: What gets processed:

. . .

Multiple files per partitionEach file up to 2GBytes (or larger)

Operator A

Operator A

Operator A

Operator A

Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Node 4

data filesof x.ds

$ osh “operator_A > x.ds“

GUI

OSH

Datasets

What gets generated:

Computing Architectures: Definition

Clusters and MPP Systems

Shared Disk Shared Nothing

Uniprocessor

Dedicated Disk

• IBM, Sun, HP, Compaq• 2 to 64 processors• Majority of installations

Shared Memory

SMP System(Symmetric Multiprocessor)

DiskDisk

CPU

Memory

CPU CPU CPU

• PC• Workstation• Single processor server

CPU

• 2 to hundreds of processors• MPP: IBM and NCR Teradata• each node is a uniprocessor or SMP

CPU

Disk

Memory

CPU

Disk

Memory

CPU

Disk

Memory

CPU

Disk

Memory

Job Execution:Orchestrate

Conductor Node

C

Processing Node

SL

PP P

SL

PP P

Processing Node

• Conductor - initial DS/EE process– Step Composer– Creates Section Leader processes (one/node)– Consolidates massages, outputs them– Manages orderly shutdown.

• Section Leader – Forks Players processes (one/Stage)– Manages up/down communication.

• Players– The actual processes associated with Stages– Combined players: one process only– Send stderr to SL– Establish connections to other players for data

flow– Clean up upon completion.• Communication:

- SMP: Shared Memory- MPP: TCP

Working with Configuration Files

You can easily switch between config files:'1-node' file - for sequential execution, lighter reports—handy for

testing 'MedN-nodes' file - aims at a mix of pipeline and data-partitioned parallelism

'BigN-nodes' file - aims at full data-partitioned parallelism

Only one file is active while a step is runningThe Framework queries (first) the environment variable:

$APT_CONFIG_FILE

# nodes declared in the config file needs not match # CPUsSame configuration file can be used in development and target

machines

SchedulingNodes, Processes, and CPUs

DS/EE does not: – know how many CPUs are available– schedule

Who knows what?

Who does what?– DS/EE creates (Nodes*Ops) Unix processes – The O/S schedules these processes on the CPUs

Nodes = # logical nodes declared in config. fileOps = # ops. (approx. # blue boxes in V.O.)Processes = # Unix processesCPUs = # available CPUs

Nodes Ops Processes CPUs

User Y N

Orchestrate Y Y Nodes * Ops N

O/S " Y

{ node "n1" { fastname "s1" pool "" "n1" "s1" "app2" "sort" resource disk "/orch/n1/d1" {} resource disk "/orch/n1/d2" {} resource scratchdisk "/temp" {"sort"} } node "n2" { fastname "s2" pool "" "n2" "s2" "app1" resource disk "/orch/n2/d1" {} resource disk "/orch/n2/d2" {} resource scratchdisk "/temp" {} } node "n3" { fastname "s3" pool "" "n3" "s3" "app1" resource disk "/orch/n3/d1" {} resource scratchdisk "/temp" {} } node "n4" { fastname "s4" pool "" "n4" "s4" "app1" resource disk "/orch/n4/d1" {} resource scratchdisk "/temp" {} }

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Configuring DSEE – Node Pools

{ node "n1" { fastname "s1" pool "" "n1" "s1" "app2" "sort" resource disk "/orch/n1/d1" {} resource disk "/orch/n1/d2" {"bigdata"} resource scratchdisk "/temp" {"sort"} } node "n2" { fastname "s2" pool "" "n2" "s2" "app1" resource disk "/orch/n2/d1" {} resource disk "/orch/n2/d2" {"bigdata"} resource scratchdisk "/temp" {} } node "n3" { fastname "s3" pool "" "n3" "s3" "app1" resource disk "/orch/n3/d1" {} resource scratchdisk "/temp" {} } node "n4" { fastname "s4" pool "" "n4" "s4" "app1" resource disk "/orch/n4/d1" {} resource scratchdisk "/temp" {} }

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Configuring DSEE – Disk Pools

node

1node

2

Parallel to parallel flow may incur reshuffling:Records may jump between nodes

partitioner

Re-Partitioning

Partitioning Methods

Auto

Hash

Entire

Range

Range Map

• Collectors combine partitions of a dataset into a single input stream to a sequential Stage

data partitions

collector

sequential Stage

...

–Collectors do NOT synchronize data

Collectors

Partitioning and Repartitioning Are Visible On Job Design

Partitioning and Collecting Icons

Partitioner Collector

Setting a Node Constraint in the GUI

Reading Messages in Director

Set APT_DUMP_SCORE to true

Can be specified as job parameter

Messages sent to Director log

If set, parallel job will produce a report showing the operators, processes, and datasets in the running job

Messages With APT_DUMP_SCORE = True

Exercise


Module 6

Transforming Data

Module Objectives

Understand ways DataStage allows you to transform data

Use this understanding to:– Create column derivations using user-defined code or

system functions

– Filter records based on business criteria

– Control data flow based on data conditions

Transformed Data

Transformed data is:– Outgoing column is a derivation that may, or may not,

include incoming fields or parts of incoming fields

– May be comprised of system variables

Frequently uses functions performed on something (ie. incoming columns)– Divided into categories – I.e.

Date and timeMathematicalLogicalNull handlingMore

Stages Review

Stages that can transform data– Transformer

ParallelBasic (from Parallel palette)

– Aggregator (discussed in later module)

Sample stages that do not transform data– Sequential

– FileSet

– DataSet

– DBMS

Transformer Stage Functions

Control data flow

Create derivations

Flow Control

Separate records flow down links based on data condition – specified in Transformer stage constraints

Transformer stage can filter records

Other stages can filter records but do not exhibit advanced flow control– Sequential can send bad records down reject link

– Lookup can reject records based on lookup failure

– Filter can select records based on data value

Rejecting Data

Reject option on sequential stage– Data does not agree with meta data– Output consists of one column with binary data type

Reject links (from Lookup stage) result from the drop option of the property “If Not Found”– Lookup “failed”– All columns on reject link (no column mapping option)

Reject constraints are controlled from the constraint editor of the transformer– Can control column mapping– Use the “Other/Log” checkbox

Rejecting Data Example

“If Not Found” property

Constraint – Other/log option

Property Reject Mode = Output

Transformer Stage Properties

Transformer Stage Variables

First of transformer stage entities to execute

Execute in order from top to bottom– Can write a program by using one stage variable to

point to the results of a previous stage variable

Multi-purpose– Counters

– Hold values for previous rows to make comparison

– Hold derivations to be used in multiple field dervations

– Can be used to control execution of constraints

Stage Variables

Show/Hide button

Transforming Data

Derivations– Using expressions

– Using functionsDate/time

Transformer Stage Issues– Sometimes require sorting before the transformer

stage – I.e. using stage variable as accumulator and need to break on change of column value

Checking for nulls

Checking for Nulls

Nulls can get introduced into the dataflow because of failed lookups and the way in which you chose to handle this condition

Can be handled in constraints, derivations, stage variables, or a combination of these

Transformer - Handling Rejects

Constraint Rejects– All expressions are

false and reject row is checked

Transformer: Execution Order

• Derivations in stage variables are executed first

• Constraints are executed before derivations

• Column derivations in earlier links are executed before later links

• Derivations in higher columns are executed before lower columns

Parallel Palette - Two Transformers

All > Processing >

Transformer

Is the non-Universe transformer

Has a specific set of functions

No DS routines available

Parallel > Processing

Basic Transformer

Makes server style transforms available on the parallel palette

Can use DS routines

• Program in Basic for both transformers

Transformer Functions From Derivation Editor

Date & Time

Logical

Null Handling

Number

String

Type Conversion

Exercise

Complete exercises 6-1, 6-2, and 6-3

Module 7

Sorting Data

Objectives

Understand DataStage EE sorting options

Use this understanding to create sorted list of data to enable functionality within a transformer stage

Sorting Data

Important because– Some stages require sorted input

– Some stages may run faster – I.e Aggregator

Can be performed – Option within stages (use input > partitioning tab and

set partitioning to anything other than auto)

– As a separate stage (more complex sorts)

Sorting Alternatives

• Alternative representation of same flow:

Sort Option on Stage Link

Sort Stage

Sort Utility

DataStage – the default

UNIX

Sort Stage - Outputs

Specifies how the output is derived

Sort Specification Options

Input Link Property– Limited functionality

– Max memory/partition is 20 MB, then spills to scratch

Sort Stage– Tunable to use more memory before spilling to

scratch.

Note: Spread I/O by adding more scratch file systems to each node of the APT_CONFIG_FILE

Removing Duplicates

Can be done by Sort stage – Use unique option

OR

Remove Duplicates stage– Has more sophisticated ways to remove duplicates

Exercise


Module 8

Combining Data

Objectives

Understand how DataStage can combine data using the Join, Lookup, Merge, and Aggregator stages

Use this understanding to create jobs that will– Combine data from separate input streams

– Aggregate data to form summary totals

Combining Data

There are two ways to combine data:

– Horizontally: Several input links; one output link (+ optional rejects) made of columns from different input links. E.g.,

JoinsLookupMerge

– Vertically: One input link, one output link with column combining values from all input rows. E.g.,

Aggregator

Join, Lookup & Merge Stages

These "three Stages" combine two or more input links according to values of user-designated "key" column(s).

They differ mainly in:– Memory usage

– Treatment of rows with unmatched key values

– Input requirements (sorted, de-duplicated)

Not all Links are Created Equal

Joins Lookup Merge

Primary Input: port 0 Left Source MasterSecondary Input(s): ports 1,… Right LU Table(s) Update(s)

• Enterprise Edition distinguishes between:- The Primary Input (Framework port 0)- Secondary - in some cases "Reference" (other ports)

• Naming convention:

Tip: Check "Input Ordering" tab to make sure

intended Primary is listed first

Join Stage Editor

One of four variants:– Inner– Left Outer– Right Outer– Full Outer

Several key columns allowed

Link Order immaterial for Inner and Full Outer Joins (but VERY important for Left/Right Outer and Lookup and Merge)

1. The Join Stage

Four types:

2 sorted input links, 1 output link – "left outer" on primary input, "right outer" on secondary input– Pre-sort make joins "lightweight": few rows need to be in RAM

• Inner• Left Outer• Right Outer• Full Outer

2. The Lookup Stage

Combines: – one source link with– one or more duplicate-free table links

no pre-sort necessaryallows multiple keys LUTsflexible exception handling forsource input rows with no match

Lookup

Sourceinput

One or more tables (LUTs)

Output Reject

0

1

2

0

1

The Lookup Stage

Lookup Tables should be small enough to fit into physical memory (otherwise, performance hit due to paging)

On an MPP you should partition the lookup tables using entire partitioning method, or partition them the same way you partition the source link

On an SMP, no physical duplication of a Lookup Table occurs

The Lookup Stage

Lookup File Set – Like a persistent data set only it

contains metadata about the key.– Useful for staging lookup tables

RDBMS LOOKUP– NORMAL

Loads to an in memory hash table first

– SPARSE Select for each row. Might become a performance

bottleneck.

3. The Merge Stage

Combines – one sorted, duplicate-free master (primary) link with – one or more sorted update (secondary) links.– Pre-sort makes merge "lightweight": few rows need to be in RAM (as with

joins, but opposite to lookup). Follows the Master-Update model:

– Master row and one or more updates row are merged if they have the same value in user-specified key column(s).

– A non-key column occurs in several inputs? The lowest input port number prevails (e.g., master over update; update values are ignored)

– Unmatched ("Bad") master rows can be either kept dropped

– Unmatched ("Bad") update rows in input link can be captured in a "reject" link

– Matched update rows are consumed.

The Merge Stage

Allows composite keys

Multiple update links

Matched update rows are consumed

Unmatched updates can be captured

Lightweight

Space/time tradeoff: presorts vs. in-RAM table

Master One or more updates

Output Rejects

Merge

0

0

21

21

In this table:• , <comma> = separator between primary and secondary input links

(out and reject links)

Synopsis:Joins, Lookup, & Merge

Joins Lookup Merge

Model RDBMS-style relational Source - in RAM LU Table Master -Update(s)Memory usage light heavy light

# and names of Inputs exactly 2: 1 left, 1 right 1 Source, N LU Tables 1 Master, N Update(s)

Mandatory Input Sort both inputs no all inputsDuplicates in primary input OK (x-product) OK Warning!Duplicates in secondary input(s) OK (x-product) Warning! OK only when N = 1Options on unmatched primary NONE [fail] | continue | drop | reject [keep] | dropOptions on unmatched secondary NONE NONE capture in reject set(s)

On match, secondary entries are reusable reusable consumed

# Outputs 1 1 out, (1 reject) 1 out, (N rejects)Captured in reject set(s) Nothing (N/A) unmatched primary entries unmatched secondary entries

The Aggregator Stage

Purpose: Perform data aggregations

Specify:

Zero or more key columns that define the aggregation units (or groups)

Columns to be aggregated

Aggregation functions:count (nulls/non-nulls) sum max/min/range

The grouping method (hash table or pre-sort) is a performance issue

Grouping Methods

Hash: results for each aggregation group are stored in a hash table, and the table is written out after all input has been processed– doesn’t require sorted data– good when number of unique groups is small. Running

tally for each group’s aggregate calculations need to fit easily into memory. Require about 1KB/group of RAM.

– Example: average family income by state, requires .05MB of RAM

Sort: results for only a single aggregation group are kept in memory; when new group is seen (key value changes), current group written out.– requires input sorted by grouping keys– can handle unlimited numbers of groups– Example: average daily balance by credit card

Aggregator Functions

Sum

Min, max

Mean

Missing value count

Non-missing value count

Percent coefficient of variation

Aggregator Properties

Aggregation Types

Aggregation types

Containers

Two varieties– Local

– Shared

Local– Simplifies a large, complex diagram

Shared– Creates reusable object that many jobs can include

Creating a Container

Create a job

Select (loop) portions to containerize

Edit > Construct container > local or shared

Using a Container

Select as though it were a stage

Exercise


Module 9

Configuration Files

Objectives

Understand how DataStage EE uses configuration files to determine parallel behavior

Use this understanding to– Build a EE configuration file for a computer system

– Change node configurations to support adding resources to processes that need them

– Create a job that will change resource allocations at the stage level

Configuration File Concepts

Determine the processing nodes and disk space connected to each node

When system changes, need only change the configuration file – no need to recompile jobs

When DataStage job runs, platform reads configuration file– Platform automatically scales the application to fit the

system

Processing Nodes Are

Locations on which the framework runs applications

Logical rather than physical construct

Do not necessarily correspond to the number of CPUs in your system– Typically one node for two CPUs

Can define one processing node for multiple physical nodes or multiple processing nodes for one physical node

Optimizing Parallelism

Degree of parallelism determined by number of nodes defined

Parallelism should be optimized, not maximized– Increasing parallelism distributes work load but also

increases Framework overhead

Hardware influences degree of parallelism possible

System hardware partially determines configuration

More Factors to Consider

Communication amongst operators– Should be optimized by your configuration– Operators exchanging large amounts of data should

be assigned to nodes communicating by shared memory or high-speed link

SMP – leave some processors for operating system

Desirable to equalize partitioning of data

Use an experimental approach– Start with small data sets– Try different parallelism while scaling up data set sizes

Factors Affecting Optimal Degree of Parallelism

CPU intensive applications– Benefit from the greatest possible parallelism

Applications that are disk intensive– Number of logical nodes equals the number of disk

spindles being accessed

Configuration File

Text file containing string data that is passed to the Framework– Sits on server side– Can be displayed and edited

Name and location found in environmental variable APT_CONFIG_FILE

Components– Node– Fast name– Pools– Resource

Node Options

Node name – name of a processing node used by EE – Typically the network name– Use command uname –n to obtain network name

Fastname – – Name of node as referred to by fastest network in the system– Operators use physical node name to open connections– NOTE: for SMP, all CPUs share single connection to network

Pools– Names of pools to which this node is assigned– Used to logically group nodes– Can also be used to group resources

Resource– Disk– Scratchdisk

Sample Configuration File

{

node “Node1"

{

fastname "BlackHole"

pools "" "node1"

resource disk "/usr/dsadm/Ascential/DataStage/Datasets" {pools "" }

resource scratchdisk "/usr/dsadm/Ascential/DataStage/Scratch" {pools "" }

}

}

Disk Pools

Disk pools allocate storage

By default, EE uses the default pool, specified by “”

pool "bigdata"

Sorting Requirements

Resource pools can also be specified for sorting:

The Sort stage looks first for scratch disk resources in a “sort” pool, and then in the default disk pool

{ node "n1" { fastname “s1" pool "" "n1" "s1" "sort" resource disk "/data/n1/d1" {} resource disk "/data/n1/d2" {} resource scratchdisk "/scratch" {"sort"} } node "n2" { fastname "s2" pool "" "n2" "s2" "app1" resource disk "/data/n2/d1" {} resource scratchdisk "/scratch" {} } node "n3" { fastname "s3" pool "" "n3" "s3" "app1" resource disk "/data/n3/d1" {} resource scratchdisk "/scratch" {} } node "n4" { fastname "s4" pool "" "n4" "s4" "app1" resource disk "/data/n4/d1" {} resource scratchdisk "/scratch" {} } ...}

{ node "n1" { fastname “s1" pool "" "n1" "s1" "sort" resource disk "/data/n1/d1" {} resource disk "/data/n1/d2" {} resource scratchdisk "/scratch" {"sort"} } node "n2" { fastname "s2" pool "" "n2" "s2" "app1" resource disk "/data/n2/d1" {} resource scratchdisk "/scratch" {} } node "n3" { fastname "s3" pool "" "n3" "s3" "app1" resource disk "/data/n3/d1" {} resource scratchdisk "/scratch" {} } node "n4" { fastname "s4" pool "" "n4" "s4" "app1" resource disk "/data/n4/d1" {} resource scratchdisk "/scratch" {} } ...}

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Another Configuration File Example

Resource Types

Disk

Scratchdisk

DB2

Oracle

Saswork

Sortwork

Can exist in a pool– Groups resources together

Using Different Configurations

Lookup stage where DBMS is using a sparse lookup type

Building a Configuration File

Scoping the hardware:– Is the hardware configuration SMP, Cluster, or MPP?– Define each node structure (an SMP would be single

node): Number of CPUs CPU speed Available memory Available page/swap space Connectivity (network/back-panel speed)

– Is the machine dedicated to EE? If not, what other applications are running on it?

– Get a breakdown of the resource usage (vmstat, mpstat, iostat)

– Are there other configuration restrictions? E.g. DB only runs on certain nodes and ETL cannot run on them?

Exercise

Complete exercise 9-1 and 9-2

Module 10

Extending DataStage EE

Objectives

Understand the methods by which you can add functionality to EE

Use this understanding to:– Build a DataStage EE stage that handles special

processing needs not supplied with the vanilla stages

– Build a DataStage EE job that uses the new stage

EE Extensibility Overview

Sometimes it will be to your advantage to leverage EE’s extensibility. This extensibility includes:

Wrappers

Buildops

Custom Stages

When To Leverage EE Extensibility

Types of situations:Complex business logic, not easily accomplished using standard EE stagesReuse of existing C, C++, Java, COBOL, etc…

Wrappers vs. Buildop vs. Custom

Wrappers are good if you cannot or do not want to modify the application and performance is not critical.

Buildops: good if you need custom coding but do not need dynamic (runtime-based) input and output interfaces.

Custom (C++ coding using framework API): good if you need custom coding and need dynamic input and output interfaces.

Building “Wrapped” Stages

You can “wrapper” a legacy executable: Binary Unix command Shell script

… and turn it into a Enterprise Edition stage capable, among other things, of parallel execution…

As long as the legacy executable is: amenable to data-partition parallelism

no dependencies between rows

pipe-safe can read rows sequentially no random access to data

Wrappers (Cont’d)

Wrappers are treated as a black box EE has no knowledge of contents

EE has no means of managing anything that occurs inside the wrapper

EE only knows how to export data to and import data from the wrapper

User must know at design time the intended behavior of the wrapper and its schema interface

If the wrappered application needs to see all records prior to processing, it cannot run in parallel.

LS Example

Can this command be wrappered?

Creating a Wrapper

Used in this job ---

To create the “ls” stage

Creating Wrapped Stages

From Manager:Right-Click on Stage Type

> New Parallel Stage > Wrapped

We will "Wrapper” an existing Unix executables – the ls command

Wrapper Starting Point

Wrapper - General Page

Unix command to be wrapped

Name of stage

Conscientiously maintaining the Creator page for all your wrapped stages will eventually earn you the thanks of others.

The "Creator" Page

Wrapper – Properties Page

If your stage will have properties appear, complete the Properties page

This will be the name of the property as it

appears in your stage

Wrapper - Wrapped Page

Interfaces – input and output columns - these should first be entered into the

table definitions meta data (DS Manager); let’s do that now.

• Layout interfaces describe what columns the stage:

– Needs for its inputs (if any)– Creates for its outputs (if any)– Should be created as tables with columns in

Manager

Interface schemas

Column Definition for Wrapper Interface

How Does the Wrapping Work?

– Define the schema for export and importSchemas become interface

schemas of the operator and allow for by-name column access

import

export

stdout ornamed pipe

stdin ornamed pipe

UNIX executable

output schema

input schema

QUIZ: Why does export precede import?

Update the Wrapper Interfaces

This wrapper will have no input interface – i.e. no input link. The location will come as a job parameter that will be passed to the appropriate stage property. Therefore, only the Output tab entry is needed.

Resulting Job

Wrapped stage

Job Run

Show file from Designer palette

Wrapper Story: Cobol Application

Hardware Environment: – IBM SP2, 2 nodes with 4 CPU’s per node.

Software:– DB2/EEE, COBOL, EE

Original COBOL Application:– Extracted source table, performed lookup against table in DB2,

and Loaded results to target table.– 4 hours 20 minutes sequential execution

Enterprise Edition Solution:– Used EE to perform Parallel DB2 Extracts and Loads– Used EE to execute COBOL application in Parallel– EE Framework handled data transfer between

DB2/EEE and COBOL application– 30 minutes 8-way parallel execution

Buildops

Buildop provides a simple means of extending beyond the functionality provided by EE, but does not use an existing executable (like the wrapper)

Reasons to use Buildop include: Speed / Performance

Complex business logic that cannot be easily represented using existing stages

– Lookups across a range of values– Surrogate key generation– Rolling aggregates

Build once and reusable everywhere within project, no shared container necessary

Can combine functionality from different stages into one

BuildOps

– The DataStage programmer encapsulates the business logic

– The Enterprise Edition interface called “buildop” automatically performs the tedious, error-prone tasks: invoke needed header files, build the necessary “plumbing” for a correct and efficient parallel execution.

– Exploits extensibility of EE Framework

From Manager (or Designer):Repository pane:

Right-Click on Stage Type > New Parallel Stage > {Custom | Build | Wrapped}

• "Build" stages from within Enterprise Edition

• "Wrapping” existing “Unix” executables

BuildOp Process Overview

General Page

Identicalto Wrappers,except: Under the Build

Tab, your program!

Logic Tab forBusiness Logic

Enter Business C/C++ logic and arithmetic in four pages under the Logic tab

Main code section goes in Per-Record page- it will be applied to all rows

NOTE: Code will need to be Ansi C/C++ compliant. If code does not compile outside of EE, it won’t compile within EE either!

Code Sections under Logic Tab

Temporary variables declared [and initialized] here

Logic here is executed once BEFORE processing the FIRST row

Logic here is executed once AFTER processing the LAST row

I/O and Transfer

Under Interface tab: Input, Output & Transfer pages

Optional renaming of output port from default "out0"

Write row

Input page: 'Auto Read'Read next row

In-RepositoryTable Definition

'False' setting,not to interfere with Transfer page

First line: output 0

I/O and Transfer

• Transfer all columns from input to output.• If page left blank or Auto Transfer = "False" (and RCP = "False") Only columns in output Table Definition are written

First line:Transfer of index 0

BuildOp Simple Example

Example - sumNoTransfer– Add input columns "a" and "b"; ignore other columns

that might be present in input

– Produce a new "sum" column

– Do not transfer input columns

sumNoTransfera:int32; b:int32

sum:int32

NO TRANSFER

- RCP set to "False" in stage definition and

- Transfer page left blank, or Auto Transfer = "False"

• Effects:

- input columns "a" and "b" are not transferred

- only new column "sum" is transferred

Compare with transfer ON…

From Peek:

No Transfer

Transfer

TRANSFER- RCP set to "True" in stage definition

or- Auto Transfer set to "True"

• Effects:- new column "sum" is transferred, as well as- input columns "a" and "b" and- input column "ignored" (present in input, but

not mentioned in stage)

Columns

DS-EE type

Defined in Table Definitions

Value refreshed from row to row

Temp C++ variables

C/C++ type

Need declaration (in Definitions or Pre-Loop page)

Value persistent throughout "loop" over rows, unless modified in code

Columns vs. Temporary C++ Variables

Exercise

Complete exercise 10-1 and 10-2

Exercise

Complete exercises 10-3 and 10-4

Custom Stage

Reasons for a custom stage:– Add EE operator not already in DataStage EE

– Build your own Operator and add to DataStage EE

Use EE API

Use Custom Stage to add new operator to EE canvas

Custom Stage

DataStage Manager > select Stage Types branch > right click

Custom Stage

Name of Orchestrate operator to be used

Number of input and output links allowed

Custom Stage – Properties Tab

The Result

Module 11

Meta Data in DataStage EE

Objectives

Understand how EE uses meta data, particularly schemas and runtime column propagation

Use this understanding to:– Build schema definition files to be invoked in

DataStage jobs

– Use RCP to manage meta data usage in EE jobs

Establishing Meta Data

Data definitions– Recordization and columnization

– Fields have properties that can be set at individual field level

Data types in GUI are translated to types used by EE

– Described as properties on the format/columns tab (outputs or inputs pages) OR

– Using a schema file (can be full or partial)

Schemas– Can be imported into Manager

– Can be pointed to by some job stages (i.e. Sequential)

Data Formatting – Record Level

Format tab

Meta data described on a record basis

Record level properties

Data Formatting – Column Level

Defaults for all columns

Column Overrides

Edit row from within the columns tab

Set individual column properties

Extended Column Properties

Field and

string settings

Extended Properties – String Type

Note the ability to convert ASCII to EBCDIC

Editing Columns

Properties depend on the

data type

Schema

Alternative way to specify column definitions for data used in EE jobs

Written in a plain text file

Can be written as a partial record definition

Can be imported into the DataStage repository

Creating a Schema

Using a text editor– Follow correct syntax for definitions

– OR

Import from an existing data set or file set– On DataStage Manager import > Table Definitions >

Orchestrate Schema Definitions

– Select checkbox for a file with .fs or .ds

Importing a Schema

Schema location can be on the server or local

work station

Data Types

Date

Decimal

Floating point

Integer

String

Time

Timestamp

Vector

Subrecord

Raw

Tagged

Runtime Column Propagation

DataStage EE is flexible about meta data. It can cope with the situation where meta data isn’t fully defined. You can define part of your schema and specify that, if your job encounters extra columns that are not defined in the meta data when it actually runs, it will adopt these extra columns and propagate them through the rest of the job. This is known as runtime column propagation (RCP).

RCP is always on at runtime.

Design and compile time column mapping enforcement.– RCP is off by default.– Enable first at project level. (Administrator project properties)– Enable at job level. (job properties General tab)– Enable at Stage. (Link Output Column tab)

Enabling RCP at Project Level

Enabling RCP at Job Level

Enabling RCP at Stage Level

Go to output link’s columns tab

For transformer you can find the output links columns tab by first going to stage properties

Using RCP with Sequential Stages

To utilize runtime column propagation in the sequential stage you must use the “use schema” option

Stages with this restriction:– Sequential

– File Set

– External Source

– External Target


When RCP is Disabled– DataStage Designer will enforce Stage Input

Column to Output Column mappings.– At job compile time modify operators are

inserted on output links in the generated osh.


When RCP is Enabled– DataStage Designer will not enforce mapping

rules.– No Modify operator inserted at compile time.– Danger of runtime error if column names

incoming do not match column names outgoing link – case sensitivity.

Exercise

Complete exercises 11-1 and 11-2

Module 12

Job Control Using the Job Sequencer

Objectives

Understand how the DataStage job sequencer works

Use this understanding to build a control job to run a sequence of DataStage jobs

Job Control Options

Manually write job control– Code generated in Basic

– Use the job control tab on the job properties page

– Generates basic code which you can modify

Job Sequencer– Build a controlling job much the same way you build

other jobs

– Comprised of stages and links

– No basic coding

Job Sequencer

Build like a regular job

Type “Job Sequence”

Has stages and links

Job Activity stage represents a DataStage job

Links represent passing control

Stages

Example

Job Activity stage – contains

conditional triggers

Job Activity Properties

Job parameters to be passed

Job to be executed – select from dropdown

Job Activity Trigger

Trigger appears as a link in the diagram

Custom options let you define the code

Options

Use custom option for conditionals– Execute if job run successful or warnings only

Can add “wait for file” to execute

Add “execute command” stage to drop real tables and rename new tables to current tables

Job Activity With Multiple Links

Different links having different

triggers

Sequencer Stage

Can be set to all or any

Build job sequencer to control job for the collections application

Notification

Notification Stage

Notification Activity

Sample DataStage log from Mail Notification

Sample DataStage log from Mail Notification

E-Mail Message

Notification Activity Message

Exercise


Module 13

Testing and Debugging

Objectives

Understand spectrum of tools to perform testing and debugging

Use this understanding to troubleshoot a DataStage job


Parallel Environment Variables

Environment VariablesStage Specific


Environment VariablesCompiler

Typical Job Log Messages:

Environment variables

Configuration File information

Framework Info/Warning/Error messages

Output from the Peek Stage

Additional info with "Reporting" environments

Tracing/Debug output

– Must compile job in trace mode– Adds overhead

The Director

• Job Properties, from Menu Bar of Designer• Director will

prompt you before eachrun

Job Level Environmental Variables

Troubleshooting

If you get an error during compile, check the following:

Compilation problems– If Transformer used, check C++ compiler, LD_LIRBARY_PATH– If Buildop errors try buildop from command line– Some stages may not support RCP – can cause column mismatch .– Use the Show Error and More buttons– Examine Generated OSH– Check environment variables settings

Very little integrity checking during compile, should run validate from Director.

Highlights source of error

Generating Test Data

Row Generator stage can be used– Column definitions

– Data type dependent

Row Generator plus lookup stages provides good way to create robust test data from pattern files

Documents

DataStage EE