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Connectivity

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Request to have a Auto Loader of Platform Connections Page instead of "Show More" Option

On the Platform Connection Connections Page while you try to browse your existing connections after limited connections got listed we have a "Show More" Button which then updates/shows the next available connections, If we have more than 150 to 20...
8 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs. Datastage only is allowed sftp and ftp protocols for long time.
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

DataStage connectivity for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB SQL API (noSQL)

As you've already done for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API, can you also developp a connector to Azure Cosmos DB SQL API ?
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Support for Apache Accumulo through DataWave

USG customer uses Apache Accumulo as one of their main data repositories. Need CP4D to be able to use Accumulo as a source and target data source for Information Governance, Data Science, Virtualization, and AI functionality (All of CP4D)
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Support for endpoints in S3 connector

We need to write files into our company amazon s3 bucket with Datastage 11.5.0.2. We cannot tune the S3 Connector component with our specific endpoint, as we could using "endpoint" parameter with aws cli.
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Support for Db2 Temporal Joins

Temporal table and Time Travel Queries are a powerful functionality which is not yet supported in Db2 although it has been introduced many years ago. The Join stage needs to be extended for Business-Time otions like "FOR BUSINESS_TIME FROM '1990-0...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

DataStage - Azure [Datalake] Storage Connector - Support parallelism parquet format

From PMR it has been confirmed that: Parallel Read/write - CSV and Delimited only support parallel write operations, rest of all file formats do not support parallel read/write. Parquet format doesn't support parallel read/write It is not document...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Enabling JDBC/ODBC connection to Azure SQL database (PaaS) using Azure Active Directory Integrated Security (email address) credentail

We have requirement from user for using Azure Active Directory credential (email address) in JDBC connection string from 11.7.1 IGC New or IMAM. Currently IBM's JDBC driver in IGC New or IMAM only work with SQL Server Authentication Credential to ...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Enable renaming input/output links of a hierachical stage

Currently it is impossible to rename the input/output links of a Hierarchical stage without putting the assembly in an invalid state See Case: TS000177036
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

ODBC - Bulk Load capability

CP4D - DataStage will be used in the data flows defined in our datalake using Postgres and Azure SQL. Because we are required to use the ODBC Connector for the connections we require the capability of doing Bulk Loads , exactly as this is offered ...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration