Generic stage in DataStage

The Generic stage allows you to call an Orchestrate operator from within a stage and pass it options as required.

The Generic stage is a processing stage. It has any number of input links and any number of output links.

When you double click the Generic stage, the properties panel opens. The properties panel has three tabs:

• Stage. This is always present and is used to specify general information about the stage.
• Input. This is where you specify the details about the input set from which you are selecting records.
• Output. This is where you specify details about the processed data being output from the stage.

Input tab

The Columns tab specifies the column definitions of incoming data. The Advanced tab allows you to change the default buffering settings for the input link.

Output tab

The Generic stage can have any number of output links. Select the link whose details you are looking at from the Output name drop-down list.

The Columns section specifies the column definitions of the data. The Advanced section allows you to change the default buffering settings for the output links.