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May 19th, 2010

About DataStage Product

- DataStage was conceived at company called VMark that developed two notable products: UniVerse database and the DataStage ETL tool in first half of 1996.

- VMark acquired UniData in October 1997 and renamed itself to Ardent Software

- In 1999 Ardent Software was acquired by Informix, the database software vendor

- In April 2001 IBM acquired Informix and took just the database business leaving the data integration tools to be spun off as an independent software company called Ascential Software.

- In March 2005 IBM acquired Ascential Software and made DataStage part of the WebSphere family as WebSphere DataStage

- In 2006 the product was released as part of the IBM Information Server under the Information Management family but was still known as WebSphere DataStage

- In 2008 the suite was renamed to InfoSphere Information Server and the product was renamed to InfoSphere DataStage

Enterprise Edition: A name given to the version of DataStage that had a parallel processing architecture and parallel ETL jobs.

Server Edition: The name of the original version of DataStage representing Server Jobs. Early DataStage versions only contained Server Jobs.

DataStage 5 - Added Sequence Jobs

DataStage 6 - Added Parallel Jobs via Enterprise Edition.

MVS Edition - Mainframe jobs, developed on a Windows or Unix/Linux platform and transferred to the mainframe as compiled mainframe jobs.

DataStage for PeopleSoft - A server edition with prebuilt PeopleSoft EPM jobs