IBM InfoSphere DataStage Pros
The best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities.
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Amir Miandarbandi
CEO at DELOMID IT
It works with multiple servers and offers high availability.
View full review »The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily.
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage
May 2023

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reviewer2066052
Program Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage.
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Sumeet Zalpuri
Data analyst at ASR Nederland N.V.
The solution is stable.
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KirillSlivchikov
Owner at 7Spring Consult
It is quite useful and powerful.
View full review »We like the flexibility of modeling.
View full review »The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms
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reviewer1623630
Head of IT Integration & Finance Transformation at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Offers great flexibility.
View full review »When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses.
View full review »IBM InfoSphere DataStage Cons
What needs improvement in IBM InfoSphere DataStage is its pricing. The pricing for the solution is higher than its competitors, so a lot of the clients my company has worked with prefer other tools over IBM InfoSphere DataStage because of the high price tag.
Another area for improvement in the solution stems from a lot of new types of databases, for example, databases in the cloud and big data have become available, and IBM InfoSphere DataStage is working on various connectors for different data sources, but that still isn't up-to-date, meaning that some connectors are missing for modern data sources.
The latest version of IBM InfoSphere DataStage also has a complex architecture, so my team faced frequent outages and that should be improved as well.
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Amir Miandarbandi
CEO at DELOMID IT
I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera.
View full review » It takes a lot of time to actually trigger your job and then go into the logs and other stuff. So all of this is really time-consuming.
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage
May 2023

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SM
reviewer2066052
Program Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica.
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Sumeet Zalpuri
Data analyst at ASR Nederland N.V.
The initial setup can be complex.
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KirillSlivchikov
Owner at 7Spring Consult
It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java.
View full review »The error messaging needs to be improved.
View full review »In the future, I would like to see more integration with cloud technologies.
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reviewer1623630
Head of IT Integration & Finance Transformation at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Currently lacking virtualization ability.
View full review »Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface.
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage
May 2023

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