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    An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

    When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
    3 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

    The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

    Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
    4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

    Schema Validation using Avro File Format under File Connector stage (AvroStreams)

    Schema Validation exists with old avro1.x version but not with Avrostreams. Schema vadliation should be always available Avrostreams which avoid CLASSPATH setting.
    about 1 month ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

    Having more parameters in API calls

    It would be beneficial to be able to pass more parameters during an API call (server/execute, for example). Currently, we can use an overrides file to modify a DBalias or the path to an XF file, for instance, in the case of a data extraction reque...
    13 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

    DataStage incorporates multiple open-source components. To ensure system stability and operational consistency, any behavioral changes resulting from updates to these bundled open-source components should be managed and absorbed by the DataStage installer. This approach prevents disruptions during system deployment and post-deployment operations.

    Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
    3 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Under review

    Integrate zAI analysis to use SQL-DI

    SQL-DI is great at finding commonalties, similarities and possibly predicting values, It might be a good idea to feed zAI collected data into SQL-DI to assess the calculated values and choose and compare access paths chosen with host variable valu...
    23 days ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 0 Submitted

    Add/enable connection from DataStage to confluent cloud topics having OAUTH support for schema registry.

    We are trying to connect to confluent cloud topic from on-prem Datastage with kafka connector used in jobs.To connect for confluent cloud topic we select OAUTHBEARER property in kafka connector. According to our use case, we are facing issue while...
    26 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

    Information Server 11.7.1.5 certify Teradata TTU v20

    RBC currently has over 50 projects with more than 10,000 jobs running on Teradata v17.20. The Teradata DB is scheduled to be upgraded to v20 in January 2026. However, TTU v20 is not yet certified with IIS 11.7.1.5, and the minimum required IIS ver...
    4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Planned for future release

    Requesting Java SE 9 or higher with 64 arch support for IBM Optim 11.7

    We are currently using Oracle provided JRE 1.8 32 bit in all of our Optim servers in Linux/Windows. Since Oracle as made all Java/JRE need to have license which needs us to pay license cost for the same. Hence our organization adopted openjdk prov...
    6 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Submitted

    OPTIM/HPU INTERFACE CHANGE TO ALLOW USE OF MULTIPLE IMAGE-COPY DATASETS

    This is an enhancement request for OPTIM TDM for z/OS (FMID HAEYB70). OPTIM TDM/DP currently allows users to inform only one image-copy dataset (taken in another DB2 subsystem) in the process of extracting and converting data. In our environment w...
    about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

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