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INFOSPHERE® DATASTAGE®



OPTICAL MANUFACTURER AND RETAILER

PROJECT NAME

IBM InfoSphere DataStage TX Classroom and Side by Side Training

CLIENT PROFILE

Client is a leader in premium, luxury, and sports eyewear. They manufacture, distribute, and operate retail stores in over 100 countries.
  • Industry: Optical
  • Location: United States/Global
  • Products: Premium, luxury, and sports optics and accessories
  • Technical Environment: InfoSphere DataStage TX

BUSINESS CASE

  • Provide a combination of classroom and side by side training to 3-5 client integration and messaging resources
  • Provide the training according to client provided syllabus which they modeled from vendor provided training programs
  • Provide training at company facilities as a cost advantage to the T&E of sending associates off-site to training
  • Have training materials (hand outs and exercises) that would remain after the training for reference purposes
  • Train not only in a classroom setting but side by side doing analysis, mapping, testing, and implementation in real-life integration scenarios

SITUATION

  • Client required advance preparation of training program and materials
  • Client had DataStage TX software already installed in-house and a conference room with the appropriate network facilities, access, and permissions to perform training and integration deliverables
  • Not including preparation time the training was delivered in one week with follow-up consultations via phone for a few weeks after delivery

SOLUTION / DELIVERABLES

Basic instruction on the use of the DataStage TX Design Studio components used to define business processes and transform data for use on one system to another.

Training on the following topics:
  • Defining data structures
  • Defining data properties
  • Defining data components
  • Validating data definition
  • Building in additional validation
  • More about mapping
  • Functional maps
  • Functional map wizard
  • More efficient type definitions
  • Error handling
  • Map optimization
  • Map execution
  • Text file importer
Training on the concepts and techniques necessary to optimize and improve the performance of maps and solve complex transformation problems included the following topics:
  • Art of the type tree
  • Art of the mapping rule
  • Using router maps
  • Using Internet and utility adapters
  • Optimizing performances
  • Creating custom reports from the audit log

OUTCOME

The training was delivered successfully and REMEDI was invited back in to assist with some highly complex 837 maps after the training engagement.