A must-know for anyone looking for DataStage advanced interview questions, this is one of the frequent questions asked of managers as well. IBM DataStage flow designer is a window client application where we can create, edit, schedule, trigger and perform operations. It provides the dashboard palette where we can drag/ drop components to create jobs and go to a few important features of the DataStage flow designer listed below -  Projects  Connections  Table definitions  Jobs  Parameter sets  We could trigger the code part through the designer tasks and link the different stages through DataStage links. The tool provides options such as using containers, creating, compiling, running jobs, editing, scheduling the existing jobs, Importing/ exporting jobs, loading columns, maintaining metadata of job info, updating configuration files, parameters etc. functionality which makes the job execution dynamic.