Ab Initio Course Content
1.Data warehousing Concepts
2.Introduction to Ab Initio. Operating Systems & Hardware Platforms that it supports
3.Products of Ab Initio Software Corporation

• The Ab Initio Co-Operating System
• Graphical Development Environment (GDE)
• The Ab Initio Enterprise Meta>Environment (EME)

4.Salient Features of Ab Initio
5.Understanding the High Level Architecture of Ab Initio
6.What is the Anatomy of Running a Job? What happens when we push the ‘Run’ Button?

• Deployment Process
• Host Process Creation
• Agent Process Creation
• Component Process Creation
• Successful Component Termination
• Agent Termination
• Host Termination
• Abnormal Component Termination

7.How do we connect from GDE to the Server (RunSettings)
Host Profile File (.aih)
Connection, Co-Operating System, Shell & Host Directory
8.What is Graph Programming? What are the basic parts of an Ab Initio Graph?
9.Data Manipulation Language (DML)

• Record Formats
• DML Expressions
• Transform Functions
• Key Specifiers 

10.How do we build a basic Ab Initio Graph? Using .dat(Data File) & .dml(Record Format File)
11.What is Parallelism - Types

• Component Parallelism
• Pipeline Parallelism
• Data Parallelism

12.Sandbox - Types

• Private Sandbox
• Public Sandbox
• 13.Editors in the GDE
• Record Format Editor
• Expression Editor
• Transform Editor
• Key Specifier Editor
• Package Editor
• Variables Editor
• Sequence Specifier Editor

14.Dataset Components

• INPUT FILE
• OUTPUT FILE
• INTERMEDIATE FILE
• LOOKUP FILE
• LOOKUP TEMPLATE
• BLOCK-COMPRESSED LOOKUP TEMPLATE

15.Transform Components - Multistage and Advanced Components

• DEDUP SORTED
• FILTER BY EXPRESSION
• JOIN
• MULTI REFORMAT
• NORMALIZE
• REFORMAT
• ROLLUP
• SCAN
• SCAN WITH ROLLUP

16.Partition Components

• BROADCAST
• PARTITION BY KEY
• PARTITION BY EXPRESSION
• PARTITION BY PERCENTAGE
• PARTITION BY RANGE
• PARTITION BY ROUND-ROBIN 

17.De-partition Components

• CONCATENATE
• GATHER
• INTERLEAVE
• MERGE

18.Miscellaneous Components

• REDEFINE FORMAT
• GATHER LOGS
• REPLICATE
• RUN PROGRAM
• TRASH

19.Compress Components

• COMPRESS
• UNCOMPRESS
• DEFLATE
• INFLATE

20.Interactive Database Components (IDB)

• INPUT TABLE
• OUTPUT TABLE
• RUN SQL
• UPDATE TABLE
• JOIN WITH DB

21.Sort Components

• SORT
• SORT WITHIN GROUPS
• SAMPLE
• PARTITION BY KEY AND SORT

22.Validate Components

• CHECK ORDER
• COMPARE RECORDS
• CREATE DATA
• GENERATE RECORDS
• VALIDATE RECORDS

23.Working with Database’s. Introduction Database Configuration File (.dbc)
24.Lookup Functions

• Lookup Local
• Lookup Count
• Lookup First
• Lookup Last
• Lookup Next 

25.StringFunctions

• String_char
• String_concat
• String_filter
• String_filter_out
• String_length
• String_lrepad
• String_rindex
• String_substring
• String_upcase
• String_split
• String_length

26.Multifiles and Multidirectories(MFS)
27.Phasing & Checkpointing
28.Reusability Features

• Sub graphs
• Graph Parameters
• Input parameters
• Sandbox Parameters

29.The Ab Initio Enterprise Meta>Environment(EME)

• High level anatomy of the EME
• Relation to sandbox environment 
• Checking in your sandbox 
• Checking out a graph or a sandbox
• Locking in order to change an object
• Tagging
• Common projects
• Dependency and Impact analysis

30.Advanced Features

• Debugging Techniques
• Plan>It
• Performance Tuning
• PSETS
• PDL Concepts