IBM Information Server FastTrack capabilities

IBM^® Information Server FastTrack includes features that are designed to minimize the manual effort during design cycles, while still achieving maximum impact on downstream development activities.

IBM Information Server FastTrack offers the following capabilities:

Automated IBM WebSphere^® DataStage^® and QualityStage™ Designer job generation: Automates parallel job generation and provides the ability to combine multiple specifications to create a single job. Job generation automatically derives an extract, transform, and load flow from business requirements.
Customizable spreadsheet view: Provides the ability to annotate column mappings with business rules and transformation logic. You can also view detailed properties information including an expandable view of the artifacts in the IBM Information Server metadata services repository.
Automated discovery of relationships: Helps you to create customized discovery algorithms to find exact, partial, and lexical matches on corresponding column names across source to target structures.
Relationships with IBM WebSphere Business Glossary terms: Helps you to create new business terms and document their relationship to corresponding physical columns as a part of the mapping process. The relationships are then published to the IBM Information Server metadata services common repository so that they can be shared across development teams.
Import data from Microsoft^® Excel spreadsheets and .csv formats: Allows you to import data from existing spreadsheets to start new specifications. You can also export mapping specifications into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and .csv formats.
Flexible reporting capabilities: Provides information on column-level mappings, table-level mappings and lookups. You can create PDF and HTML reports that can be used to communicate with development teams and management.
Table-level specifications: Provides the ability to define joins, filters and case statements, and leverage joins that are found during profiling with IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer.
Lookup support: Provides the ability to define lookups to generate the “lookup stage” in the generated integration job. These lookup definitions are searchable and designed for reuse.
Generated Data Definition Language (DDL): Provides the option to generate a target data model that data modelers and developers can use if a data model does not currently exist for the target application.