The purpose of DataStage is to "supports the collection, integration and
transformation of large volumes of data". That doesn't sound like the
kind of data for which version control is appropriate. Could you
describe what use cases you were hoping to have supported?

we're not talking about the data volumes here but about the ETL configuration schemes.
We'd like to be able to version each ETL Configuration and Scenario's versions.
Please advise,

In general, RTC is similar to most SCM systems in this regard ... as
long as the information can be persisted in the form of a set of files,
and as long as updates to the information can be read from files, you
can use RTC to version control the information.

I have been doing some experimenting with connecting RTC to other products, so while I can't tell you about InfoSphere Datastage directly, at least you can check some things that might help.

1) Check the Eclipse version of Datastage - Eclipse 3.4.2 for RTC 2.0.0.2 is a promising start, Eclipse Rich Client Platform or other IDE's are unlikely to work.

2) Try running RTC's Installation Manager, select the option to install the client on an existing Eclipse instance and point it to your DataStage installation. The Installation Manager is very good at checking all the pre-requisites for RTC. You may need to install other Eclipse plugins to get DataStage to install.

3) Try installing DataStage as an Eclipse plugin. You need to check with the InfoSphere people to see if this can be done.

Once you have RTC installed, check you can still use DataStage correctly, and then check the RTC functionality (open the work items view, connecting to a repository, and adding a file/project to source control is probably a good test.

However, unless Datastage has implemented the Eclipse Team interface, none of the above will help. You need to at least see the File->Team->Share Project... menu item from DataStage to see this.

If none of the above work, but you can still see the files, you can add them to version control via another Eclipse instance (RTC) or use the commandline. Not as nice as from the Datastage UI though.

Finally, please raise this as an enhancement request viaInfoSphere DataStage tech support if it does not work.

Hope that helps

anthony

Hi Geoff

Is there any integration available for Information Server Manager or DataStage designer 8.5 with RTC 3.0.x or is there any enhancement which has been raised for the same ?
I am looking to version Projects in which artifacts are kept in datastage. These Artifacts are modified on server using Datastage client on a local machine. Versioning is required at Project and artifact level, the artifacts can be jobs, scripts etc. I figured out that we can't use Workspace sharing or command line here since, the modifications are done directly on the server.

Any solution or work around ?

Regards
Naveen

Hi Naveen,

The RTC source control capability currently will only version files that
are stored in a file system, not data in an arbitrary repository.
Architecturally, RTC source control was originally defined with the idea
of versioning arbitrary persistent data, not just files, but only the
file-based layer has been implemented so far.

Hi Naveen, Are you sure these files are not downloaded to local workspace first wen editing using the server manager ? the recommended version control systems to the information server is cvs and rational ClearCase - both these systems using version control on the files in your local eclipse workspace. RTC works the same way. RTC 1.x should be the same eclipse level as datastage 8.5 and I have been told that a real supported integration might be comming up - most likely with rtc 3.0.1 with something called Blueprint.