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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

New Features using connectors stage directly with connections URL strings. Problem can be solved just by drag and drop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

Still, at some point, I have to write SQL queries manually, and at some point, there is some technical issue arising where IBM experts are not answerable, eg: Tracing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM DataStage:

Could thoroughly choose the IBM suite for ETL development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Transformation of data and reading Data from old excel files to create reports. Benefits in data migration. Another benfit is parallelism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IBM DataStage Overview

What is IBM DataStage?

IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage® is a leading ETL platform that integrates data across multiple enterprise systems. It leverages a high performance parallel framework, available on-premises or in the cloud. The scalable platform provides extended metadata management and enterprise connectivity. It integrates heterogeneous data, including big data at rest (Hadoop-based) or big data in motion (stream-based), on both distributed and mainframe platforms. It supports IBM Db2® Z and Db2 for z/OS®, applies workload and business rules, and integrates real-time data in an easy to deploy, scalable platform. Learn More: https://ibm.co/2NpHEtZ

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IBM DataStage is a ETL platform that integrates data across multiple enterprise systems. It leverages a high performance parallel framework, available on-premises or in the cloud.


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"IBM Datastage for ETL"
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is simple yet efficient tool for ETL processing. It has the variety of stages to implement your designs and test the same...
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"Good product"
Its speed. It is very fast and responsive. Support is good.
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4.5 out of 5
"Analyzing vendor data"
There are two reasons for us to use it, less cost, and because it's user friendly.
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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

We use InfoSphere DataStage for ETL in our organisation and as datastage can easily handle large data (Tbs) and we can transform our data easily. It's easier to design our jobs in datastage and to run them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

As a beginner I found using datastage hard. As there are so many functionalities and hence it takes time to get a hang of it. But once you start practicing it, it becomes easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

As our organisation handle very large data and to extract, transform and load we need some powerful tool. Hence Datastage is solving our problem by handling it prefectly. And we are easily able to build our ETL jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

IBM InfoSphere DataStage is simple yet efficient tool for ETL processing.

It has the variety of stages to implement your designs and test the same at runtime.

It has got additional features compared to other ETL tools, which helps in debugging and error handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

Datastage is UI is little at the backseat compared to other ETL tools.

Stages could be categorised based on functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is solving the data integration problems from variety of platforms and provide approciate data formats at the end user.

Like, JSON, Files, txts, DB , amd Bigdata etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

There are two reasons for us to use it, less cost, and because it's user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

Customer support is excellent, furthermore there can be some improvement on the number of features.

We did not face any problems during its implementation and its integration.

Frequency of use is not high as we are not just relying on it, but we might in future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

I cannot disclose it because of the company's policy, but in brief we are using it to analyse multiple vendor data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

This tool has many options: A large number of connectors, ease of use of stages (jobs, sequences). It is possible to introduce code and make calls via restApi. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

Now it seems that you have to work from CloudPak as a cartridge.. this makes the solution more expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Trabajamos con muchas fuentes de datos, esto nos ayuda a gestionarlas. Por otro lado, hacemos integraciones cada pocas horas, lo que significa que estamos cerca de trabajar en tiempo real. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

- performance excelente na execução de processos ETL para grande quantidade de dados. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

- Falta de documentação e conhecimento disponível para estudo e aprendizado.

- Falta de suporte por parte do fornecedor ( diversos problemas com o produto e também falta de suporte para funcionalidades como o quality stage).

- Interface não é nenhum pouco intuitiva e de difícil uso. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

execução de processos etl e de qualidade de dados. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

DataStage helps us to construct a source model that describes the rules for querying the source database. We have used several stages while making Dimension tables and fact table like transformer, lookup, joins etc. Steps are so easy to use that we must drag and drop the stages required for building the tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

The thing that I don't like about IBM Infosphere Datastage application is a plan of it is costly. Also, the Metadata propagation in Jobs is somewhat complex for some users and issues in the processing of XML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM Infosphere Datastage is used to develop jobs that move data from source systems to target systems using simple steps. It is not only data warehousing, we can also use infosphere for analysis and see the enormous architecture of your OLTP systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

Its speed. It is very fast and responsive. Support is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

a little hard to use and implement. hs few bugs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

fast data integration and processing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

Easy of use, easy of implementation, compact product. Very good team of customer support.

Great performance for large data volumes, allows parallelism Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

it is not support code versioning without git integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data Transformation, Data governance, interconnection of non-homogeneous origins, quick creation of interfaces between applications.

Creation and impletation of data quality rules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

What i like most in DataStage that on SaaS delivers ultimate flexibility , load balancing is almost automated though it’s required some tweak on parallel engine . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

nothing as per now . For multicloud and integration it has no match though some issue with DB2 . It also supports the least access policy which most of tools lagging . There is no match for user interface . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

What i like most in DataStage that on SaaS delivers ultimate flexibility , load balancing is almost automated though it’s required some tweak on parallel engine . For multicloud and integration it has no match though some issue with DB2 . It also supports the least access policy which most of tools lagging . There is no match for user interface . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM DataStage?

Business need fulfilled w.r.t. Sources.

Json, XML,XLS,big data, etc feature.

Many tools availble but majority designer, operational console used.

Really, upgrading things as per demand in market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataStage?

No free or trail version of software available. git not supported but latest version supported.. very costly require to provide free or trail or cost minimize.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM DataStage:

It is easy tool to learn compared to other etl tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM DataStage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Admin, performance improvement, job recovery, build logic etc. problem solving w.r.t. client request. Which help me to grow my business as I am Datastage Expert Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.