IBM InfoSphere DataStage 8.5 New features

New features and changes in IBM InfoSphere Information Server Datastage, Version 8.5

Enabling Operational Repository logging for a project:

You can now specify whether the jobs in a project write logging information to the operational repository when they run.

Missing columns in the Data Set stage:

You can now specify what action is taken for columns that are defined on the link but are not contained in the source data set.

ex:I have create a det set with ID column only as shown below.

In the next job i am reading the same dataset but specified one more column called NAME which is not present the source dataset created by previous job.

We  now have new option available in the dataset properties called Missing Column mode as shown below.

Copying roles from an existing project:

You can now specify that a new project will inherit users, groups, and associated roles from an existing project.

Environment variables created during import:

I have a parallel job developed in 7.5 with the environment variables like TgtDB,TgtUsrID,TgtPswd and TgtSchema.When i imported the same job into datastage 8.5  project the environment variables do not already exist in the
project, are automatically created.