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IBM InfoSphere QualityStage Essentials v11.7

This IBM Self-Paced Virtual Class (SPVC) includes: - PDF course guide available to attendee during and after course - Lab environment where students can work through demonstrations and exercises at...

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Duration 4 days
Course Code 2M214G-SPVC
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Overview

This IBM Self-Paced Virtual Class (SPVC) includes:
- PDF course guide available to attendee during and after course
- Lab environment where students can work through demonstrations and exercises at their own pace

This course teaches how to build QualityStage parallel jobs that investigate, standardize, match, and consolidate data records. This course covers common data quality issues, QualityStage architecture, QualityStage clients and their functions, importing metadata, running jobs and reviewing results, building Investigate jobs, the Standardize stage and rule sets, identifying matching records and applying multiple Match passes, building a Survive job, and using a Two-Source match.

Students will gain experience by building an application that combines customer data from three source systems into a single master customer record.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, learners should be able to:

  • List common data quality contaminants
  • Describe QualityStage architecture, clients, and their functions
  • Build and run DataStage and QualityStage jobs and review results
  • Use Character Discrete, Concatenate, and Word Investigations to analyze data fields
  • Build jobs using the Standardize stage
  • Build a QualityStage job to identify matching records
  • Interpret, improve, and consolidate match results

Who Can Benefit

This course is intended for Data Analysts responsible for data quality using QualityStage, Data Quality Architects, and Data Cleansing Developers.

Prerequisites

  • Participants should have the following skills:
    • Familiarity with the Windows Operating System
    • Familiarity with a text editor
    • Helpful, but not required:
      • Some understanding of elementary statistics principles such as weighted averages and probabilities.

Course Details

Unit 2 - QualityStage Overview

  • Exercise 1: QualityStage Logon

Unit 3: Developing with QualityStage

  • Exercise 1: Import Table Definition Metadata
  • Exercise 2: Build a QualityStage Job

Unit 4: Investigate

  • Exercise 1: Build Investigate Jobs

Unit 5: Standardize

  • Exercise 1: Standardize Country
  • Exercise 2: Select US Records
  • Exercise 3: Standardize USPREP
  • Exercise 4: Standardize USNAME, USADDR, and USAREA
  • Exercise 5: Investigate unhandled Patterns
  • Exercise 6: Apply Rule Set Override

Unit 6: Match

  • Exercise 1: Create Match Frequency Job
  • Exercise 2: One-Source Match Specification
  • Exercise 3: Build One-Source Job using Match Specification

Unit 7: Survive

  • Exercise 1: Survivorship
  • Exercise 2: Create Customer Master Load File

Unit 8: Two-Source Match

  • Exercise 1: Read the Case Study
  • Exercise 2: Prepare the Data Environment
  • Exercise 3: Run the Two-Source Match Job
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Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?

Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.

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Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.

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As a vendor-authorized training partner, we offer a curriculum that our partners have vetted. We use the same course materials and facilitate the same labs as our vendor-delivered training. These courses are considered the gold standard and, as such, are priced accordingly.

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