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DataStage

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Enable TAC oracle funtion on Stored Procedure stage

Currently, DataStage cannot support TAC Function on STP Stage version 11.7.1.x because the customer is using Oracle resource and has enabled TAC function. After testing and running, it was found that the problem occurred at Stored Procedure stage....
9 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
2 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

CP4D - Would like to be able to delete multiple jobs at the same time in the GUI

While the asset browser now allows selection of multiple assets for deletion in most places, the "job" view has no such selection and jobs must be selected one at a time and then deleted. The GUI should offer the same type of selection boxes for j...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Jobs API - have synchronous call to launch Datastage jobs

One of our customer (CNP in France) is evaluating the CP4D-DataStage. They have DataStage 11.5 and actually migrating to 11.7. They have a framework (BASIC code that orchestrates the DataStage jobs) that is the centerpiece of their DataStage proje...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Need PostgreSQL stage to support Stored Procedure call in CP4D

This will help the PDO teams to work on PostegreSQL stage using stored procedures on CP4D
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve the functionality of the Join stage

Currently when doing a join in DataStage and tyring to achieve the same as e.g. a between in a SQL join, you either have to use the Lookup stage (which has other limitations, is not well documented (according to documentation, the Lookup stage doe...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Process to enable TLS 1.3 on DataStage versions

Need process to enable/upgrade TLS 1.3 for DataStage 11.7.1.X versions. This will help to enable new security features and meet the audit. Product :InfoSphere Information Server: Data Integration (DataStage)
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted