Ab Initio Training Curriculum

AbInitio Fundamentals

DAY 1
Introduction
Architecture - Application hub
Co>Operating System – Fundamentals
EME – Fundamentals
GDE
Introduction
User Interface
Run Settings
Project Settings
Hands on -Familiarising GDE, Connection profiles & preferences
Component Dictionary
Sandbox View
Graphs
SubGraphs
Graph Design
Components
Flows
Dynamic Script Generation

DAY 2
Flat files
Generating scripts
Data And Record Formats
Component Settings
Editors
Transform Functions – [ Should cover user defined types ]
Understanding DML as language -Different data types and conversion
Data Connectivity –Database
The .dbc file
Ab Initio components - Explain and hands-on for below components:

Datasets
Input /output file
Lookup file
Read multifiles
Write multifiles
Read Excel
Write Excel
 Read XML
Write XML
Lookup files

Database Components:
Input/Output table
Join with DB
Run SQL
Multi Update table
Truncate table
Update table
Hands on -Working with Input File, Sort & Filter Components
ML, EXCEL, MVS Input files, Databases
Summarize

Day 3
Recap of Ab Initio components
Ab Initio components - Explain and hands-on training for below components:

Transform Components:
Reformat
Multi Reformat
Rollup
Scan
Fuse
FBE
Split
Combine
Dedup Sorted
Normalize

Vectors
Watcher sets
m_commands
commonly used “air” commands
Summarize

Day 4
Recap
Multifile System
Parallelism
Ab Initio components - Explain and hands-on training for below components:

Partitioning:
PBKS
PBRR
 PBE
PBR
Merge
Gather
Interleave
Concatenate
Sort
Sort within groups

Hands on -Working with MFS

Performance improvement achieved using mfs.
Phases and Checkpoints
Debugging [ Explain how to use breakpoints ]
Components -Log components
Introduction to EME and commonly used EME commands
Summarize

DAY 5
Sandbox
.project.pset/.sandbox.pset
Abinitio file extensions
Parameterization [PDL]
Parameter Interpretation

XML:
Read XML
Write XML
XML Split
XML Combine

Miscellaneous
Generate records
Compare Checksums
Compute checksum
Create data
Replicate
Redefine format
Assign keys

Case Study

Summarize

Assessment / quiz