Overview of InfoSphere Information Server Manager
You can use the IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server Manager (the deployment tool) to move, deploy, and control your IBM InfoSphere DataStage® and QualityStage® assets.
The InfoSphere Information Server Manager is a deployment tool that helps you manage your jobs and related assets. In a typical environment, you implement your data transformation solutions across several systems, and control the promotion of assets between these systems. At its simplest, your environment might contain development, test, and production systems. The deployment tool is installed on a Windows computer, and you can connect to all of your systems from the same Manager.
- Viewing your InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage assets on different metadata repositories
- Creating packages of assets that you can build and deploy on an iterative basis
- Performing simple exports and imports of assets
- Submitting assets to a source control system
You can also manage your InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage jobs and related assets by using the istool commands.