InfoSphere QualityStage information roadmap

This document provides links to the information resources that are available for IBM® InfoSphere® QualityStage®.

Table 1. InfoSphere QualityStage information roadmap
Category Information resources
Product overview icon Product overview
InfoSphere QualityStage home page
This Web site provides information about the features and benefits of InfoSphere QualityStage. (Type: Web site; Format: HTML)
Introduction
These topics introduce you to InfoSphere QualityStage as a component of InfoSphere Information Server. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Tutorial
These topics teach you the basic skills that you need to develop InfoSphere QualityStage jobs. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Installation icon Installing
Installing InfoSphere Information Server
These topics describe the steps to install InfoSphere Information Server, its product modules (including InfoSphere QualityStage), and optional components. They also explain how to migrate from previous releases. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Configuring InfoSphere QualityStage
These topics explain how to configure InfoSphere QualityStage. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Administration icon Administering
Overview of the InfoSphere Information Server consoles
These topics introduce the console and the Web console, and they explain how to use each to complete administrative tasks. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Administering InfoSphere Information Server
These topics describe how to perform general administration tasks, such as setting up user security, managing sessions, reviewing logs, scheduling activities, and managing assets. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Administering projects
These topics explain how to create InfoSphere DataStage® and QualityStage projects, set project properties, and perform other administrative tasks. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Security roles in InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage
This topic explains the user roles that enable administrators to control access for individuals or groups. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Development icon Developing and running jobs (general)
Designing jobs
These topics explain how to design jobs by using the InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage Designer. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Developing parallel jobs
These topics provide a basic introduction to parallel processing and describe some of the key concepts in designing parallel jobs. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Deploying jobs
These topics describe the various methods that you can use to deploy jobs and package objects. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Running jobs
These topics describe how to validate, run, schedule, and monitor jobs. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Development icon Developing jobs that cleanse and standardize data
Cleansing data
These topics provide information about how to create jobs that cleanse and standardize data. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
InfoSphere QualityStage Methodologies, Standardization, and Matching
This IBM Redbooks® publication documents the procedures for implementing InfoSphere QualityStage and related technologies by using a typical merger and acquisition financial services business scenario. The scenario covers all dimensions of data cleansing, standardization, matching, job design, and job deployment through a data integration lifecycle. (Type: IBM Redbooks; Format: PDF)
Tutorial: Enhancing a product rule set in the Standardization Rules Designer
This tutorial shows you how to use the IBM InfoSphere QualityStage Standardization Rules Designer to enhance a rule set that standardizes product data. When you standardize data, you implement data quality standards that normalize data values and prepare data for uses such as matching and reporting. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Tutorial: Enhancing an address rule set in the Standardization Rules Designer
This tutorial shows you how to use the IBM InfoSphere QualityStage Standardization Rules Designer to enhance a rule set that standardizes address data. When you standardize data, you implement data quality standards that normalize data values and prepare data for uses such as matching and reporting. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Troubleshooting icon Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
These topics describe log files, administrative tools, and how to troubleshoot issues such as problems with authentication and configuration. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Troubleshooting InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage
These topics describe how to troubleshoot issues with configuration and job execution. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Parallel engine message reference
The messages listed in this section describe the types of errors, explain why they occurred, and provide solutions to them. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Reference icon Reference
InfoSphere QualityStage pattern action reference
These topics describe the Pattern Action language, which application developers use to create matching patterns and pattern parameters to analyze customer data. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Parallel job reference
These topics describe more of the features and stages that are available for parallel jobs. You can use these topics to help you fine tune your jobs and to produce custom components to use in your jobs. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Command line interface and API reference
These topics describe the command line interface, C API, and BASIC interface. You can use the command line interface to control jobs, administer projects, and search for objects in the repository. You can use the C API and BASIC interface to write programs to control jobs. (Type: Information center; Format: HTML)
Training icon Training
IBM InfoSphere training
IBM offers classroom, on-site, and e-Learning training classes. (Type: Training; Format: HTML)
Community resources icon Community resources
IBM developerWorks®
The IBM developerWorks Web site contains developer resources, tutorials, and articles. (Type: Web site; Format: HTML)
Community forum
The InfoSphere QualityStage community forum enables users to share experiences for data quality including data standardization, data matching and enrichment and data survivorship. (Type: Community; Format: HTML)
Product support icon Product support
InfoSphere QualityStage product support
The IBM Support Portal is a unified, customizable view of all technical support tools and information for all IBM systems, software, and services. (Type: Web site; Format: HTML)
Other resources icon Other resources
The information perspective of SOA design, Part 6: The value of applying the data quality analysis pattern in SOA
This article from the IBM developerWorks Web site shows the value and approach of data quality analysis in the context of an SOA environment. It explains the concepts involved in data quality analysis and the basic steps needed to initiate a data quality assessment project within the broader SOA project. It describes how to analyze these issues so that appropriate implementation choices can be made. (Type: Article; Format: HTML)
The information perspective of SOA design, Part 7: The execution approach for the data quality analysis pattern in SOA
This article from the IBM developerWorks Web site demonstrates to an architect community the execution approach of detailed data quality analysis in the context of an SOA environment. This article focuses on the implementation of data quality analysis regardless of the specific technology in use. (Type: Article; Format: HTML)
Leverage a ripple-down rules framework in InfoSphere QualityStage standardization rule set development
This article from the IBM developerWorks Web site looks at address standardization and shows how you can use the advantages of a ripple-down rules (RDR) framework in QualityStage rule set development, lowering the manual effort required to rewrite or migrate rules from one data source to another.