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DataStage MQ Connector does not support use of the userid and password under UNIX

We are trying to configure MQ Connector to connect to MQ Server using userid and password. Connection fails with "2035 MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED". Connection works only without authentication. PMR confirmed we need to submit enhancement request to add n...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 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

Support KMS keys on Google Cloud Storage.

DataStage jobs that write to a GCS bucket, using the GCS connector, get error that includes " is encrypted with a Cloud KMS key, which is not supported."
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Certify Information Server with SAS 9.4 M6

We are using Information Server 11.7.1 and have multiple ETL jobs that use SAS connectors to execute SAS code from the ETL server ( SAS 9.4 M3 ). However the SAS version has now been upgraded to SAS 9.4 M6 and the connectivity via the provided con...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 4 Future consideration

SAP PI AAE / AEX mode support for IDOC

We have financial integration to SAP IDOC structure. Due to lack of support of PI AAE / AEX mode - connector will be uselessness
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 4 Not under consideration

BQ connector read using Storage API - Long term solution

We are encountering poor performance while reading data from BQ table. Google engineering team had recommended to use Storage API instead of streamline API. IBM engineering team had identified a short term solution (still in RFE phase) .
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Snowflake Connector Error handling

1) We encountered an issue while using the insert or update option. The continue on error option does not work and the job fails if it encounters bad data. We opened a case with IBM. There is no reject capture mechanism. Workaround: Two step solut...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 6 Not under consideration

Merge option in Snowflake connector as a load option to overcome the performance issue with insert and update.

We have already discussed the issue with IBM SF developer (Saravanan). Please provide an ETA asap. this is critical showstopper to use SF connector in Datastage.
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

PMR-TS001777097 (Enhancement to Response file generation in the existing SFDC plugin)

Enhancement to Response file generation in the existing SFDC plugin .The change we are looking1) When we load the data in to SFDC the stage should generate 2 types of files 1) request file and 2) response file. Currently only request file is getti...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

LZ4 DB2 Compression Option - DB2 Connector Stage

As we've been migrating from Netezza to DB2 (with the support of IBM) - It's been noticed (by IBM) that the LZ4 Compression Option is not available in the DB2 Connector. Tests performed via the DB2 Command Line (on the Datastage server) show signi...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists