Sharing and moving your designs

You can share and move job designs and components by importing and exporting them.

IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage® allows you to import and export components in order to move jobs and other objects between InfoSphere DataStage development systems. When you import or export jobs, InfoSphere DataStage ensures that all the components required for a particular job are included in the import/export.

You can also use the export facility to generate XML documents which describe objects in the repository. You can then use a browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer to view the document. XML is a markup language for documents containing structured information. It can be used to publish such documents on the Web. For more information about XML, visit the following Web sites:

• http://www.xml.com
• http://webdeveloper.com/xml

InfoSphere DataStage also allows you to import objects from outside InfoSphere DataStage in order to leverage investment in other resources. Besides table definitions, you can import ActiveX (OLE) functions to use in server jobs (or in parallel jobs via a BASIC transformer or server shared container). You can similarly import web services functions to use in routines. You can import metadata from a variety of third party tools by using IBM InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager.