The DSToolBox™ solution provides three primary functions to DataStage^® Developers:

• Documenting the Repository simplifies project reporting and project maintenance
• Viewing the Repository empowers you to work across object types and categories
• Executing tasks across multiple objects simplifies migrations and upgrades across the enterprise.

DSToolBox™ connects directly to your DataStage^® Repository and enforces your existing DataStage^® security model to provide secure and timely views and updates into your enterprise metadata.

Documenting the Repository

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• Document your repository quickly using the documentation feature. Developers and managers alike will find this simple interface one of the most powerful advantages for owning a copy of DSToolbox™.
• Numerous documentation formats including rich text, heirachical, plain text, and more.
• User has full control of what detail is included in the documentation
• Customizing documentation formats allows advanced users to render documentation in their own proprietary format.

Viewing the Repository

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• Viewing your repository empowers you to work across object type and categories.
• Powerful filters provide customized views into the repository.
• Information in the viewer can be copied and pasted into external documents and reports.
• Sorting on any column allows users to quickly organize objects within the viewer.

Executing tasks across multiple objects

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• Executing tasks on multiple objects only requires a few mouse clicks.
• Compiling multiple jobs without opening the designer makes migration and upgrades a real snap.
• Exporting and importing a selection of jobs or objects speeds up the time required to create migrations from development into production.
• Updating multiple objects through the documentation viewer greatly simplifies making global changes. When a change involves multiple jobs or even multiple stages, the edit function makes the task a snap.
• Renaming and copying objects using the pattern matching, allows for standardizing object names after a development effort has started. It also gives managers the ability to replicate objects quickly and easily.