Datastage general overview.
August 07, 2025

Datastage general overview.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IBM DataStage

It handles large business scale data. Since this an example of ETL software, it can handle large amount of data records especially banking information to our clients, migrating and generating them into new sets of information that we can utilize into a better tangible data for processing. It can generate alot of information based on a lot data dump that we can utilize for more business refined approach.

Pros

  • Executing batch jobs (datastage jobs).
  • Compiles a lot of datasets into a new set of information.
  • It creates more refined information based on what we create and define from the job logics created.

Cons

  • Parameter refreshes the variables that need to be refreshed all the time when a new job is deployed.
  • Defining variables one by one takes a lot of time especially those are hard coded.
  • Jobs are sometimes get hung.
  • Sessions locks up the jobs.
  • It’s hard to say at this point, it delivers, but not quite as I expected. It takes a lot of resources to manage and sort this out (manpower, financial).
  • Definitely, I don’t have the exact numbers, but given the data it processes, it is A LOT. So props to the developer of this application.
  • Again, based on my experience, I’d choose other ETL apps if there is one that's more user-friendly.
Considering the short time I had to experience this software with no prior knowledge, I find it to be a straightforward application, provided you have a basic understanding and some technical knowledge of how things work in general. Collaborating with other teams or developers deepened my understanding of the app.
No, it wasn’t my decision to use such an ETL product. I’m just the administrator at this point. I’ve heard there are other products there that are even on cloud support. That is much easier to use, more agile, and user-friendly. That doesn’t have that barrier from user to administrator to the developer standpoint.

Do you think IBM DataStage delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with IBM DataStage's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM DataStage live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM DataStage go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy IBM DataStage again?

Yes

DataStage is somewhat outdated for an ETL. I guess that's what makes it a bit lagged behind its competitors. It can be used for data processing, sure, but its performance seems to be lagging behind or quite slow given the server it is running from. I won’t depend on this application if it's handling a lot of mission-critical banking and business data.

IBM DataStage Feature Ratings

7.0
Connect to traditional data sources
7
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL
7
7.5
Simple transformations
8
Complex transformations
7
7.2
Data model creation
8
Metadata management
5
Business rules and workflow
8
Collaboration
8
Testing and debugging
7
5.0
Integration with data quality tools
5
Integration with MDM tools
5

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