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Read the Quick Start Guide for the process overview and return here to download the product.Review the system requirements, and if necessary, download the product and any required fix packs or updates.I've never really been exposed to much in the way of IBM documentation before, is this. There's more there than that, of course, but not a hell of a lot more. on the Output page, define the output properties 5. on the (optional) Input page, define the Input properties 4. on the Stage page, define the stage properties 3. There are five bullet points on half a page in the "Generating surrogate keys" section, helpful things like 1. What made me check was a comment in the PX forum about the 8.1 docs for the SKG stage, it's 2.5 pages of dry text with none of the lovely illustrations or explainations of exactly how it works when, say, multiple nodes are involved. Not to mention that explanations are pretty bare-bones, mostly "whats" with not many "whys" or "hows", if that makes sense. Where each stage was a separate chapter, clearly (and nicely) delineated, now they are dumped into a Processing Data chapter with barely any indication where one stops and the next starts - they just run together with only a thin line to mark their boundaries. Many of the illustrations I recall from the 7.x Ascential guides are gone. Sure, the number of documents has increased (I count 56 mysteriously named pdf files that I have) but the "IBM style" they are now laid out in seems. Finally got my hands on the official IBM pdf documentation library for 8.1 and I'm not sure what to think.