Sourcing Options: PDM sources data directly from your originating data base.  It does not require you to move data to a proprietary staging area.  This saves considerable technicians time, computer resources and valuable project time to locate a place to move data to staging areas. PDM supports many environments for direct sourcing for profiling and quality.  Among these are DB2/UDB, DB2/400, DB2/z-OS Mainframe, Flat files, MS SQL, Oracle, Netezza, PostgreSQL, and Teradata.