Ab Initio Session

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Coverage

• Introduction to AbInitio
• Features of AbInitio
• Operating System Supported
• AbInitio Architecture
• Co–Operating System
• Graphical Development Environment
• Configuring GDE
• Component Library
• Sample Graph
• Running a Graph

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Introduction to AB Initio

• “Ab Initio” is Latin for “From the Beginning.”

• Ab Initio is a powerful ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool.
• It is a general-purpose data processing platform for enterprise
class, mission-critical applications.
• It supports the integration of arbitrary data sources and
programs, and provides complete metadata management across
the enterprise.
• With parallelism and integration capabilities, it plays an extensive
part in the creation of Data Warehouse and Data Mart.

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Features of AB Initio

• Scalable, Flexible and Portable

• Parallel Execution
• Check Pointing
• Meta Driven Components
• Database Load and Unload
• Data Transformation
• Analytical Processing

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Operating System Supported

• HP Unix
• Windows NT
• Sun Solaris
• IBM AIX

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AB Initio Architecture

User Applications

Development Environments Ab
GDE Shell
Initio

EME
Component Library User-defined 3rd Party
Components Components

The Ab Initio Co>Operating® System

Native Operating System (Unix,Windows, OS/390)

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AB Initio Software

AB INITIO

Co>Operating System GDE

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AB Initio Software

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Co>Operating System

• Unlimited Scalability
 Speedup proportional to the hardware resources available
 Access files anywhere within an enterprise.
 Manage files distributed across Network
 Manage files that span to many disks (MFS)
• Flexibility
 Open Component Model
• Portability
 Runs on Various Platforms like OS390, UNIX, Windows etc
• Shell Level Utilities
 The m_ commands are co-operating system commands such as
m_cp, m_mv etc.

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Graphical Development Environment - GDE

• Runs on PC (client node) and Configured to communicate to host

• Create applications
 By dragging and dropping components onto a canvas
 configuring them with familiar, intuitive point-and-click operations
 connecting them into executable flowcharts
 The Co-Operating System executes this flowchart
• Benefits
 Graphical monitoring of running applications
 Spot Opportunities for improving Performance
 Simple changing the application

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GDE Environment
Run

Validate

Components

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Configuring GDE

Steps to setup Host Profile

1. On the GDE menu bar, choose Settings > Manage Connection

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Configuring GDE – contd.

2.Click New for setting up a new profile

Host setting

Co>Op Setting

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Component Library

Component Library is a set of powerful, reusable software

modules with application-class power for critical tasks as sorting,
data transformation, and high-speed database loading and
unloading.

 Powerful
 Extensible
 Metadata Driven

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Component Organization

The components are the basic building blocks of AB Initio

applications.

There are two types of components

Component

Built-in User Defined

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Component Groups

Note: Ab Initio provides 13 categories of components out of which only 12 are described above.
The remaining one is Deprecated Components whose use is discouraged for new applications.

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Graph Model

Flows

Components
Dataset Ports

Sample Graph
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Running a Graph

• Graphs can be run

 GDE
 By Invoking the Shell Script from Host Machine
• GDE Run
 Graph is translated into script that can be executed in GDE.
 This script and any metadata files store on the GDE client machine
are shipped to server (via FTP)
 The script is invoked in the Server
 The script creates and runs a job that may run across many hosts
 Monitoring information are sent to client

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Job Output Window
Job Output window displays the Application Execution monitor
to show the status of the job.

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Running a Graph – contd.
Errors generated during runtime are thrown out into the Job output
window.

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Thank You

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