The DataStage Client Components:

Administrator - Administers DataStage projects, manages global settings and interacts with the system. Administrator is used to specify general server defaults, add and delete projects, set up project properties and provides a command interface to the datastage repository.

With Datastage Administrator users can set job monitoring limits, user privileges, job scheduling options and parallel jobs default.

DS Manager - It's a main interface to the Datastage Repository, allows its browsing and editing. It displays tables and files layouts, routines, transforms and jobs defined in the project. It is mainly used to store and manage reusable metadata.

DS Designer - Used to create DataStage jobs which are compiled into executable programs. is a graphical, user-friendly application which applies visual data flow method to develop job flows for extracting, cleansing, transforming, integrating and loading data. It’s a module mainly used by Datastage developers.

DS Director - Manages running, validating, scheduling and monitoring DataStage jobs. It’s mainly used by operators and testers.