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My ideas: Connectivity

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Redshift connector - Allow the use of IAM role authentication to establish connection instead of the access key and secret key.

Allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key
9 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Include 'NTLM' as an authentication method in DataStage Hierarchical stage

We have an important project that needs to source the data from the SharePoint page. The default authentication method in our SharePoint farm is 'NTLM' which is not supported by Hierarchical stage. It's impossible to enable the other method on our...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

GCS and BQ stage does not have the reject link in Datastage 11.7

As the Legacy DataStage 11.7 is using GCS and BQ stage as an alternate to existing Teradata stage, we need to have the reject link available in these stages in DataStage 11.7. Hence submitting this aha request as per IBMs suggestion. Please work o...
10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Planned for future release

Azure Blob support with EntraID

General Motors leveraging DataStage have an increasing number of their users moving their applications from on-premises to Azure. With that strategic move, GM needs support for connecting to Azure Blob Storage for their DataStage ETL / ELT jobs. M...
10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Platform Connections (for Storage Volumes) should recognize new users

When new users are added to the Cloud Pak for Data Platform, they are unable to view existing Storage Volume Platform Connections even though they have access to the underlying Storage Volume. A workaround is to update the Storage Volume Platform ...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs. Datastage only is allowed sftp and ftp protocols for long time.
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

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

DataStage connectivity for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB SQL API (noSQL)

As you've already done for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API, can you also developp a connector to Azure Cosmos DB SQL API ?
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Support for Apache Accumulo through DataWave

USG customer uses Apache Accumulo as one of their main data repositories. Need CP4D to be able to use Accumulo as a source and target data source for Information Governance, Data Science, Virtualization, and AI functionality (All of CP4D)
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Pulsar platform connection

Pulsar being used as an event stream, all operational system updates are being pushed as new messages. Required for Match 360 record updates, and periodic DQ checks on WKC.
almost 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration