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DataStage

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Seperate user's access roles privilege for the Datastage Designer client and Director client

Privilege to assign user access roles in Administrator client separately for Datastage Designer client access and Datastage Director client access.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Re-Start DataStage job (or sequence) with identical parameter settings

It would be a huge benefit to get an simple option to start a job or sequence with the identical parameter settings of the last run. Having Jobs with many parameters and parameter sets this takes time to do it manually and the parameters have to b...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Have to flip back and forth between Flow Designer and the Desktop Client

We are wondering if there is a patch already for this or if we can request an enhancement for something we see when using Flow Designer. Because we are building jobs in flow designer and using the Hierarchical stage, which can only be used in Flow...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

TLSv1.2 Support to XMETA/DSODB from DataStage

We are planning to have secure connection to DB2 using TLSv1.2 for which we are having issues when DB2 upgraded to TLSv1.2 unable to use DataStage.Upon Opening a PMR TS001777326 we were said that it is not supported for DataStage which needs to op...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

RedHatEnterprise 7.2+ x86-64 tested and supported with IIS 11.3.1.2?

Hi,we need to know if it is possible to run IIS 11.3.1.2 on RedHat 7.2+, since we have stakeholders coming in on new servers built on that OS level. And OS team will not have the servers running on release 6 any longer. That means we might have to...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

provide Information Server 64 bit on windows

Large parts of Information Server are still 32 bits on windows server, including DataStage. (IIS is fully 64 bit on linux/Aix). Customer expectation is that this is 64 bits and are surprised otherwise nowadays.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage - orchadminn cp command - copy the schema and contents with the target

orchadminn cp command doesn't copy the schema if the target file already exists.IHAC knows that it works fine if the target is deleted and orchadminn cp is executed.However, the man page is not clear, Copy the schema, contents and preserve-partiti...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Create SF_USE_LOCAL_TIMEZONE_DATEFIELD functionality for Timestamp fields

There seems to be an issue converting TimeStamp fields extracted from Salesforce to their correct timezone with the SF_USE_LOCAL_TIMEZONE_DATEFIELD setting that was suggested to me by IBM Support. It should be possible to have that same functional...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

WSDL 2.0 support enhancment

We would like Datastage to support WSDL 2.0 importing.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support for functionality to retrieve job logs via REST API

Currently the DataStage Flow Designer REST API does not have a function to retrieve logs upon job completion. We would like to see such functionality added, similar to the DSJOB -logsum and -logdetail option. Thank you!
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration