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DataStage

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Make the UI actually usable

The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Under review

Show full timestamp in listings

The “Date Created” column displays relative timestamps (e.g., “A year ago”) instead of the actual date and time. This is unhelpful, as it obscures precise information unless hovered over. Please display the full timestamp by default. This issue ex...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

AVI Stage incorrect Lat/Long calculation

THR is using AVI stage for CASS certification of address and lat-long information. We are seeing an issue with data for Latitude and longitude Columns. Different addresses are returning same latitude and longitude values. We have verified a sample...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

PXRuntime no down time support for Walmart

We need a product enhancement to support no down time during the OpenShift maintenance. OpenShift maintenance typically requires node restart. If DataStage PXRuntime pods were running on those worker nodes, the jobs will fail. If we have a control...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Multiple parallel session are running for Datastage cloudpak flows/pipelines

Hi Team, We see that our cloudpak datastage flows/pipelines can be triggered/run parallelly with multiple session at same time. That should not be the case. If one session is already running, another parallel session can not be triggered. This may...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Writing Iceberg data format working with specific catalog (for example Dremio)

Hi Using CPD Datastage tool, we can write a data in Iceberg format using Generic S3 component. But we want to write this iceberg format data that we wrote to a Storage volume to a desired catalog (Hive, Nessie, etc.). In this transfer, we cannot s...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

AVI stage – CENSUS_BLOCK, CENSUS_ID, CENSUS_TRACT, COUNTY_FIPS not available

THR is using AVI Stage to build the process of address verification. The census data information which we are looking for are CENSUS_BLOCK, CENSUS_ID, CENSUS_TRACT, COUNTY_FIPS. We are getting this information with CASS Verification through Altery...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

In Pipelines' DataStage nodes using Parameter Sets, add an option to use a paramfile

In some scenarios, the values of the DataStage parameters in a Parameter Set must be loaded from a file at runtime. This option is possible through DataStage paramfiles. However, when you're running DataStage jobs from Pipelines using a DataStage ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Ability to setup Maintenance Mode to prevent users from login and executing new job's.

Hi Team, As Admin team has the responsibility of maintaining CPD environment for datastage, we wanted check if we can enable a capability to add a Maintenance Mode to prevent users from logging and initiate any of the new job's. We need this capab...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review