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Enable ORCHESTRATE Support in Redshift Connector

Currently, ORCHESTRATE-based job design logic works correctly with the Teradata connector, but fails with the Redshift connector. This creates a functional gap during Teradata → Redshift migrations and forces redesign of existing, production-stabl...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Adopt AWS Native Redshift Drivers Instead of IBM-Provided Redshift Drivers

Why is it useful? The AWS-provided native Redshift drivers are actively maintained and regularly updated by AWS to incorporate the latest performance optimizations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. In contrast, the IBM-provided Redshift driver...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs execution information

We are entering a migration from DataStage 11.7 to DataStage Anywhere, control plane in IBM Cloud and Data Place in OCI/On Premise instances. Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs executio...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Add support for Before SQL file and After SQL file e in the Redshift connector, similar to the existing functionality in the Teradata connector.

Our organization is currently migrating from Teradata to Amazon Redshift, and we have discovered a significant gap between the Teradata connector and the Redshift connector in IBM DataStage. The Teradata connector currently provides the ability to...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Permit resizing individual columns (especially in the New Transformer)

In general, all stages that offer editing the input and output columns have a difficulty of displaying the full information and there seems to be no way to resize the display of individual columns. The default space seems even more narrow than nec...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Orchestration pipeline as a pipeline runner from CPD SaaS UI, including the schedule

Hello IBM Product Team. We request the options where the Orchestration pipeline as a pipeline runner from CPD SaaS UI, where the Jobs executed in DataStage Anywhere. This requirement arises when we encounter stages that require executing bash comm...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

We need an enhancement regarding the exact drag&drop facility in transformer stages coming with CP4D datastage just the way it has been working in IIS Datastage.

It would be quite handy since we get to use it in legacy datastage.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Gitops pattern for DataStage NG/Cloud Pak for data installation / update

The customer has implemented a standard for containerized deployments (CD pipeline) towards Kubernetes/Openshift with the following stages: Git → ArgoCD → k8s/Openshift The current installation of Datastage based on CPD shall use the GitOps patter...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Unable to Gather the Diagnostic logs from CP4D Console after 5.2.2 upgrade.

We are not able to collect Diagnostic statistics thus impacting us to gather the diagnostic logs. This issue is only happening after upgrading our CP4D version. Due to this issue, IBM support is not able to debug any issue properly. Per IBM Develo...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Add the functionallity to filter on parameter values in the Filter stage

In the Filter stage you currently can not filter on e.g. Where Clause = #Initial_Load# = 1Where Clause = #Initial_Load# = 0 for you always have to reference a column, You either have to use a Transformer stage to achieve this or you have to create...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted