June 6, 2012 \ Ananth TM Datastage Architecture Datastage needs to be installed on a server. Most servers supported by IIS are based on Windows/Unix/Linux/AIX operating systems. Datastage Clients would be installed on the users workstations/laptops. Users would include Developers, testers, business analyst, operations team member (like production support). Client Components are explained here. http://datastageetlexpert.blogspot.com/2012/06/client-components-in-datastage-75.html