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Godala

We have a single record in a file with word count 456331887 wc -c mdmn_GCRM_20180505004107.xml 456331887 I specified $APT_DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_BLOCK_SIZE=500000000 but max value of APT_DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_BLOCK_SIZE is 268435456.due to this i ...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

Surrogate Key Reset after failure of parallel DataStage job as state file is left as Truncated.

If a job fails at the while the parallel engine transformer function NextSurrogateKey() is updating the key state file,it is possible that the state file will be left in a truncated state. To a later job, the TRUNCATED state file looks just a NEW ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Synchronizing two head nodes in grid environment

In order for Walmart to run their Grids, 24x7x365 the are implementing multiple head nodes for the same grid. That way if a 6 hour patch comes in, they can take one head node down, patch it, bring it up, and then do the other. In all they lose onl...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced mathematical functions for larger data types

Some Mathematical functions accept dfloat as input but in output are restricted to int32. These functions need to be expanded to be able to return int64 values
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

iSeries support DB2 UDB API stage DataStage 11.5

We would like the DB2 UDB API stage to be certified for use against the iSeries database on DataStage 11.5 to allow for a gradual migration of the existing jobs using the DB2 UDB API stage to the DB2 connector
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

NLS Map name is required in Job Report

Designer Client generates Job Report Menu bar --> File --> Generate Job Report The default style sheet DSJobReport.*.xsl does not have function to display NLS Map Name.
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Work load manager- time wasting while waiting for a job to start

Hello We did a migration from datastage version 7.5 to version 11.5. while deliver all jobs to production we realize that the performance in the new version are very poor compare to the old version. after investigation we realized that it bec...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

NodeAgent process suspends CATALOG DCS DATABASE in DB2 CLI

Product: InfoSphere DataStage 11.5 OS: Linux Middleware: DB2 V11.1 When the customer tried to create catalogs with CATALOG DCS DATABASE in DB2 CLI. the command froze. After investigation, the process of NodeAgent causeed the freeze. As a...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing names of docker images for different instances

Information from Case numbers: TS002979327 and TS002990656 We are testing datastage 11.7.1 (kubernetes version) In case# TS002979327, following was recommended: ----- 2) you needed to modify your /etc/hosts file on your client machine wit...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support Automatically Convert Numeric SQL Type(to Decimal or etc) for File Connector Stage to Parquet Format

Problem : We need to migrate data from SQL Server to Parquet Format. One of the data type in the SQL Server is Numeric type. We will run the migration job process using RCP. Workaround : 1. We need to change data type to another type, but ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

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