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Enable setting of key columns without UI

In target connectors you can choose "Generate SQL", when doing this for an Update or Delete statement it will only work if you are not using RCP, for currently you can only check key columns for design time columns. It would be cool if you could a...
2 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Calculate Data Quality rule success rates based on the filtered/evaluated row count instead of the total underlying table row count.

A customer stores production data in a single large table and applies Data Quality rules only to specific subsets of that data by using SQL WHERE clauses. Currently, the Data Quality rule success rate appears to be calculated against the total row...
2 months ago in DataStage Submitted

Add SQL pushdown support for DB2 for z/OS connector in DataStage NextGen

Flows using the db2zos connector compile and run purely as px-runtime OSH with no pushdown. ELT mode does not support db2zos, so no predicate or transformation is pushed into DB2 for z/OS. All data is extracted to the parallel engine before any fi...
about 2 months ago in DataStage Under review

When upgrading Data Stage, from one version to another, the views and flows have to be recompiled. This is currently limited to the project owners. An enhancement request would be to allow those doing the upgrade to upgrade the views and flows as part of the upgrade

When upgrading Data Stage, from one version to another, the views and flows have to be recompiled. This is currently limited to the project owners. An enhancement request would be to allow those doing the upgrade to upgrade the views and flows as ...
24 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
about 2 years ago in DataStage Not under consideration

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...
6 months ago in DataStage Under review

Request to increase the 1000-Line Execution Log Limit in DataStage Anywhere

In DataStage 9, we were able to fully trace and monitor iterative processes that generated extensive log entries. Currently, the DataStage Anywhere web interface limits the execution log display to only the first 1000 lines. Full log visibility is...
2 months ago in DataStage Under review

DataStage should support non-interactive Linux ID for the ETL platform setup

Current State The DataStage ETL platform on Linux currently requires interactive user IDs with password authentication for two critical configuration steps: Engine owner (admin ID) selection during installation Credential mapping during post-i...
3 months ago in DataStage Submitted

File Connector - Definition for Internal table Location

We need the table location to be optional when we define it as an internal table. When the location is not user-defined, the Datastage must define the create table command, but it does not need to define the location. This is important because the...
about 4 years ago in DataStage Not under consideration

Improvements to the Transformer Component in CP4D:

- The Variable Stages: only one stage is visible at a time, and it is not possible to view the entry fields with its properties.- The output derivation: if the link is long, it is hard to know what fileds are to be derived, and whihc transfromatio...
over 2 years ago in DataStage Not under consideration

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