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Delta Files from Datastage

Currently Datastage does not supports delta files. Due to which it cannot integrate seamlessly integrate/leverage the functionality supported by potential downstreams of an ETL tool like Fabric Warehouse/Databricks. For Ex>> If datastage wou...
7 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

MFA for Datastage Connections

We are undergoing a security assessment and per IA-2(1) for privileged access and IA-2(2) for non-privileged users (see below link and attachment for official documentation) we need to implement Multifactor Authentication for Privileged or Non-Pri...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

When a DataStage job creates a dataset with a parameterized name, the dataset does not utilize the parameter value at runtime for naming.

When a dataset is created by a DataStage job, and the dataset's name is composed of a parameter, the dataset does not use the parameter's value at runtime to name it.
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Need CI/CD and Version Control Tool (Git) Integration (MettleCI) option in CP4D.

We have been demonstrted Mettle CI solution for integration with GIT/Automatic testing/CI/CD for Datastage 11.7 and said it would be available for IBM Cloud pak Data as well in future releases of CP4D : We have below questions on this topic 1)when...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Open DataStage Flows directly from Watson Pipeline Orchestration Flow

Currently, DataStage developers cannot open a parallel job directly from a sequence job. In this case, providing a way to go directly to the DataStage flow from the orchestration pipeline that is invoking the job would reduce the number of hops/cl...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

SAP PACK, ODP Delta-initialization for classification datasources

We extract classification data from SAP , in intial-mode with ODP this takes about 10 minutes. Not being able to run the datasources in delta-mode this is a performance issue. I reported this bug as a case but this way was unfortunately not succes...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage FlowDesigner add support for multi invocation of a job

DataStage Designer/Director support Multiple Invocations but the FlowDesigner (v11.7.1.1) does not support it. Please provide support for multi invocations for Sequences and parallel Jobs. That's a important feature that should not be thrown away ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

datatype uuid in Datastage Greenplum Connector

The database of my source table is Greenplum. The datatype of a field is UUID but this doesn't exists in Datastage. When I import the table definitions of this table then then the SQL type is -11.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Compatibility with SAP S/4 HANA 2021

Our company is upgrading from SAP ECC to SAP S/4 2021. We use datastage to retrieve data from SAP via SAP PACK for application 8.2.0.1. Our existing jobs continue to work with S/4 2021. On the other hand, it is not possible to generate a new ABAP ...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Oracle Pluggable database support during installation

Cann't install InfoSphere Information Server without direct port configuration or oracle legacy adjustments(support of SID format) on container database. The internal XMETA database cann't be configured on the pluggable database. Pluggable databas...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration