IBM InfoSphere Information Server Administration V9.1

Course details

IBM InfoSphere Information Server hosts a suite of products designed for the development and delivery of data integration, data quality, and data governance jobs. This course describes and discusses Information Server administrative tasks surrounding the Suite as a whole, such as security, session management, and backup and recovery, and administrative tasks related to key Information Server products such as DataStage and Information Analyzer.

Objectives:

• Identify Information Server functional components, product Monitor the performance and resource usage of DataStage jobs
• modules, and architecture components using the Performance Analyzer and Resource Estimator tools
• Use and administer the Information Server products using their Archive and package metadata assets using istool
• clients
• Deploy and manage metadata assets using Information Server
• Configure Information Suite security for users and groups Manager
• Start and stop Information Server (IS) components Import, search, and manage metadata assets using Metadata Asset
• Manager
• Manage IS sessions, logging and reporting
• Back up and restore IS using the ISRecovery tool
• Configure and manage IS Engine components including
• environment variables, configuration files, data sets, and Configure Information Analyzer and Information Services Director
• operational metadata
• Install and deploy Information Server
• Establish database connectivity with IS
• Apply patches and fix packs to Information Server
• Monitor DataStage jobs from the command line
• Examine the IS system and its health using audit tracing and ISA
• Monitor DataStage jobs and the environment in which they are Lite
• running using the DataStage Operations Console