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Connectivity

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Redshift connector slow in IIS DataStage for Insert/Update

We have a use case in which we need to process records from IIS DataStage into an aws Redshift instance. When using the stage as currently implemented, we're seeing a throughput that averages 2-6 records a second which is far below the acceptable ...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Planned for future release

Decimal Data Data type support for DataStage File Connector

Currently DataStage 11.5 does not support Decimal Data type with its File Connector. This RFE is to request the File Connector decimal data type support.
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Support for PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB through ODBC

The official supported ODBC drivers from DataDirect do not support PostgreSQL versions above 9.2 and EnterpriseDB (the commercial implementation of PostgreSQL) is not supported at all. PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB are more and more used, it is ridi...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Azure connector with SAS token

A shared access signature (SAS) provides a way to grant limited access to objects in the azure storage account to other clients, without exposing the account key.SAS keys are standard practice and with IS v.11.7 not being possible to use it, the i...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Platform Connections & WQ should support SSO passthrough to data sources

Cloud Pak for Data should support SSO passthrough for connections to data sources. As an illustration of this, the customer has provided the following example: if both CPD and a data source are configured to support SSO, the customer requires that...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Find/search connections beyond currently displayed in the Platform connections page.

Current design of the Find/Search in Platform connections page: the search can only find something within the loaded connections, so the user would have to click on `Show more` to load the remaining connections if they have over 100 connections cr...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Connector Key Columns

Add "Key Columns" as in Netezza Connector also to other Connectors.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 4 Not under consideration

Request to have a Auto Loader of Platform Connections Page instead of "Show More" Option

On the Platform Connection Connections Page while you try to browse your existing connections after limited connections got listed we have a "Show More" Button which then updates/shows the next available connections, If we have more than 150 to 20...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

LZ4 DB2 Compression Option - DB2 Connector Stage

As we've been migrating from Netezza to DB2 (with the support of IBM) - It's been noticed (by IBM) that the LZ4 Compression Option is not available in the DB2 Connector. Tests performed via the DB2 Command Line (on the Datastage server) show signi...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration