Freeing Yourself from DataStage -or other ETL- in 6 steps
Freeing Yourself from DataStage -or other ETL- in 6 steps An ETL like DataStage, BODS, Talend, Informatica… it works — until the day the license becomes too heavy, skills become scarce, or all the business logic remains locked in a proprietary format that creates a dangerous dependency. Here are 6 steps on how you can definitively break free from dependence on any particular vendor for your data transformations. (Example with DataStage, applicable to other technologies). Heritage analysis We will analyze all DataStage jobs, including their stages, dependencies, and actual execution order. Each job is scored based on complexity to prioritize the migration. Discover: the data lineage of {openAudit} Simplification of assets We will produce a data lineage from the Stage to the field — which will allow us to see what is actually being used. It is then very simple to discard what is no longer needed before m...