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Connectivity

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DataStage Amazon S3 Connector Enhancement

Need enhancement for the S3 Connector to support using SAML authentication to get temporary AWS access key and security token.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Group level access to tickets

We are unable to grant access to all cases for a single system to all a team responsible for a product. You can either see your own tickets or all tickets for the ICN (which includes multiple products). We need a way to group people together so th...
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

CP4D 4.0.2 Datastage (Tahoe) – Apache Kafka Connector custom functionality

We need the possibility to extend the Apache Kafka Connector with custom functionality. We are using AVRO SerDe + Confluent Schema Registry but the message payload is encrypted using in-house libraries. When reading events, first we need to decryp...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Connectivity for Google Big Query

Cardinal Health is trying to move all data warehouse to Big Query. Teradata is in content state. So, it is very important for Infosphere datastage (11.7.0.2) to connect to Big Query. I guess IBM is releasing Big Query connector as part of IIS11....
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Kafka Connector job failed when schema compatibility mode set to FULL

TS006561571 We have IIS 11.7.1.1 with SP1 installed on RedHat 7. Users are using Kafka Connector stage to publish message with Avro schema. The job success when Kafka schema compatibility set to NONE. But the job failed with error "Schema being re...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Enable use of DB2 Compound Statements in DataStage Connector Before/After SQL

As far as I can see, it is not possible to execute a DB2 compound statement in the DataStage DB2 Connector before/after SQL. The reason for this is, that you need to specify a statement terminator other than ";" which is currently not possible. If...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce Connector - Support for Bulk API on Queries

Currently the InfoSphere Information Server Pack for Salesforce.com only supports the Real Time API for querying data. Please can support be introduced for the Bulk API to improve the performance of large data extracts.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Proxy setting options in Google Cloud Storage Connector

Please provide the option to enter proxy settings in Google Cloud Storage connector just as we have in Google BigQuery connector. This option should be provided for all internet based connections as it is important from security point of view. Ope...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

CAM Security for TM1 Connector Stage

Add the ability to authenticate through CAM security in the TM1 Connector stage. Currently it only allows integrated security mode 1 (Native TM1) and Integrated Security Mode 3 (Windows Authentication).
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration