A closer look at IBM Information Server FastTrack

IBM^® Information Server FastTrack accelerates the design time to create source-to-target mappings and to automatically generate jobs. Mappings and jobs are then integrated into the metadata repository for IBM Information Server.

You use a simple user interface to complete business requirements, track work, and then translate the specifications directly into integration code for use by the IBM Information Server data integration engine.

With the mapping editor, you create mappings by selecting source columns and target columns from data source tables. You can drag tables or columns into the mapping editor and then associate more data, such as business terms or transformation operators, to the columns. You can obtain additional data from columns for your mapping specification by using lookup tables. You can also use a discover function to find column matches and create relationships between columns.
The Home and Mapping Specifications views provide profile and status information about specifications that are contained within projects, and access to tasks such as importing specifications, generating jobs, or publishing to a metadata repository. Within a specification, you can obtain statistics, such as the percentage of column mappings that have the source and target mapped, the number of source and target tables, and the types of transformations in a mapping specification.
With the job generation wizard, you can generate multiple specifications into a single job. You can compose jobs that are parallel or sequential. You can also save the job in the metadata repository. You view the generated jobs and can continue to enhance them in IBM WebSphere^® DataStage^® and QualityStage™ Designer.

IBM Information Server FastTrack is integrated into IBM Information Server so that specifications, metadata, and the resulting jobs are accessible by team members who are using IBM Information Server, WebSphere Information Analyzer, WebSphere DataStage Server, and IBM WebSphere Business Glossary.