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DataStage Administration

IBM Infosphere DataStage v11.5

© Copyright IBM Corporation 2015


Course materials may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written permission of IBM.
Unit objectives
• Open the Information Server Web console
• Create new users and groups
• Assign Suite roles and Component roles to users and groups
• Give users DataStage credentials
• Log into DataStage Administrator
• Add a DataStage user on the Permissions tab and specify the user’s
role
• Specify DataStage global and project defaults
• List and describe important environment variables

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Information Server Web Console - Administration
• Used for administering Information Server
 Domain management
 Session management
 Users and groups
 Log management
 Schedule management
• Our focus is on users and groups
 How DataStage user IDs are created
• We will also look at domain management
 DataStage credentials

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Web Console Login window

Administration
console address

Information
Server
administrator ID

Log in

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User and group management
• Authorizations can be provided to either users or groups
 Users that are members of a group acquire the authorizations of the group
• Authorizations are provided in the form of roles
 Two types of roles
− Suite roles: Apply to the suite
− Suite component roles: Apply to a specific product or component of Information Server, for
example, DataStage
• Two types of roles
 Administrator: Full authorizations
 User: Limited authorizations
• DataStage roles
 Administrator: Full authorizations
− Full authorizations within Administrator client
− Full developer and operator authorizations within Designer and Director
 User: Limited set of authorizations
− Permissions are specified in the DataStage Administrator client by a DataStage
administrator
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Creating a DataStage User ID

Administration tab

Users Create new user

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Assigning DataStage roles

User ID

Suite roles

Suite User
role

Component roles

DataStage
Administrator
role

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DataStage credentials
• DataStage credentials for a user ID
 Required by DataStage
 Required in addition to Information Server authorizations
• DataStage credentials are given to a user ID (for example, dsadmin)
by mapping the user ID to an operating system user ID on the
DataStage server system
• Specified in the Domain Management>Engine Credentials folder
 Default or individual mappings can be specified

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DataStage Credentials Default Mapping

Operating system
user ID on the
DataStage Server

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Logging onto DataStage Administrator

Host name of services


system (WAS)

DataStage administrator
ID and password

Name of DataStage
server system

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DataStage Administrator Projects Tab
Click to specify
project properties

Link to Information
Server Web console
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DataStage Administrator General tab

Environment variable
settings

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Environment variables

Parallel job variables Configuration file


path
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Environment reporting variables

Display Score

Display OSH

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DataStage Administrator Permissions tab

Assigned DataStage roles

Add DataStage users


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Adding users and groups

Available users /
groups with a Add DataStage users
DataStage User role

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Specify DataStage role

Added DataStage
user

Select DataStage role

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DataStage Administrator Logs tab

Auto-purge of the
Director job log Logs

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DataStage Administrator Parallel tab

Display OSH

Column type defaults

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Checkpoint
1. Authorizations can be assigned to what two items?
2. What two types of authorization roles can be assigned to a user or
group?
3. In addition to Suite authorization to log into DataStage, what else
does a DataStage developer require to work in DataStage?
4. Suppose that dsuser has been assigned the DataStage User role in
the IS Web Console. What permission role in DataStage
Administrator does dsuser need to build jobs in DataStage?

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Checkpoint solutions
1. Users and groups.
Members of a group acquire the authorizations of the group.
2. Suite roles and suite component roles.
3. DataStage credentials.
4. DataStage Developer.

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Demonstration 1
Administering DataStage

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Unit summary
• Open the Information Server Web console
• Create new users and groups
• Assign Suite roles and Component roles to users and groups
• Give users DataStage credentials
• Log into DataStage Administrator
• Add a DataStage user on the Permissions tab and specify the user’s
role
• Specify DataStage global and project defaults
• List and describe important environment variables

DataStage Administration © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015

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