Partitioning and collecting
Partitioning parallelism is key for the scalability of DataStage (DS) parallel jobs. Partitioners distribute rows of a single link into smaller segments that can be processed independently in parallel. Partitioners exist before any stage that is running in parallel. If the prior stage was running sequentially, a fan-out icon is drawn on the link in the Designer canvas, as shown in Figure 6-1.
Figure 6-1 Fan-out icon ...
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