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Make it easier to find out which lookup reference link has duplicates

If you have a flow with a lookupstage with several lookup links and one of those has duplicates on the key, then you get a warning message with which you can find out which stage caused the warning, but unfortunately not which link. We have flows ...
2 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

GIT for Datastage NG (based on review with customer)

Together with the customer we validated the initial version of Git for Datastage NG. Customer is using Datastage NG based on CPD 5.2.1 in production since y25. As the idea comprises a lot of aspects including diagrams, we created a document and ad...
13 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Fix that adding a lookupstage removes sort information from a link

If you sort data on a link (or mark it as sorted with a sort stage and don't sort previously sorted), then this information is lost (the information that the data is sorted, not the sorting itself) if there is a lookupstage downstream (that does n...
15 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

ELT on Spark (Cloudera + Databricks)

Numerous customers are using Talend Big Data (ETL tool converting design in Spark code to run on Hadoop clusters). Talend recently raised their price and many customers are evaluating competition. There are many opportunities for Datastage but any...
20 days ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Information Server 11.7.1.6 support for Oracle 26ai

The company is upgrading Oracle Exadata Platform hosting transactional databases to Oracle 26ai from Oracle 21c. Need to be able certify connectivity to Oracle 26ai
21 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Enhancement request – Add OAuth (IAM Identity Center Trusted Identity Propagation) to IBM CP4D DataStage Redshift connector

Hi, we are using IBM-CP4D-DataStage with Remote Engine configuration (Hybrid). Summary: using Our security requirement is to avoid local Redshift DB users/passwords and use AWS‑recommended OAuth/TIP via IAM Identity Center. Current IBM documentati...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Pipelines in Next Gen DataStage requires compilation in a protected environment ( Production environment )

Next Gen DataStage: At present, pipelines require compilation in a protected environment (Production). This process updates the last modified date on the log, which raises concerns about tracking changes and identifying what modifications were int...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

IIS Microservices tier, Client certificate support for 4096-bit certificates

There is a requirement to update All our certificates to 4096-bit, as mandated by The company central PKI team. It looks like The Datastage services (WebSphere) tier can support 4096-bit, the IIS certificate for the server that hosts the Microserv...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Support for Integration of Iceberg Tables with Datastage Generic S3 Connector

The S3 connector in it's current shape & form does not support CRUD operations on S3 table bucket objects. We're current doing Data warehousing in Redshift instead of a Data lake in S3 as a workaround. Similar to the recent enhancement in Reds...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Missing Error Message, when no default runtime is present

We now had two times the problem, that we didn't get a proper error message, if no default runtime on a project was set. We would like to have a clear error message "no default runtime set" to not waste days of searching and comunicating with the ...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted