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DataStage

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Enable the setting of stage parameter defaults on project or server level

It would be nice, if it would be possible to set the default values of stage Parameters on project or server level. Some stage parameter defaults like SORT Stage: Stable sort=TRUE or AGGREGATOR Stage:Method=Hash are rarely used and in ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Make it more difficult to accidentally close windows in DataStage

When working in (for example) a Transformer, if you accidentally click outside of the pop-up window, the window will close like hitting the cancel button and all the work you'd done so far is gone. This can be extremely frustrating. On a similar n...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Ability to use DataStage parameters in Teradata Logon mechanism

Client POC migrating to Cp4D DataStage from Information Server DataStage 11.7 Import of isx failed when Teradata Connector contained parameters in the logon mechanism.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

XMETA SQL Query via Connector

My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach. Our prop...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Allow dynamic branch selection at commit time from MettleCI workbench for a single datastage project.

Mettle CI functionality: Workbench can only be configured to commit to one branch in git. It need individual datastage project for each branch. Like hotfix branch can be tied only to ds_project_hf and main branch can be tied to ds_project When imp...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

SEARCH stage in JOB DFD

Create a SEARCH by stage name Datastage in job in the DFD application. In order to facilitate the finding of the stages in DFD in large jobs.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Report List of User on Web Administration Console

When we make a Report list of users on Administration Console >> Create Report. However when created, it cannot display results that match the Assigned User in a Roles. Filter doesn't works. The results displayed are all users in the user LD...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Ability to bulk export/push jobs from Data Flow Designer to GITHUB repository

In the current 11.7 implementation, each datastage job has to be pushed on to GITHUB repository. Say that there are 100 jobs in a datastage project, each job has to be opened in the flow designer and then published to the GITHUB repo. This is a ti...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ODBC, OCI and DRS connectors are failing if the source table column length are not matched with defined column length in the connector

In old OCI, DRS and ODBC, the stage won't check the column length of the database table and what we defined in the stage, and it won't give any warning about column mismatch and won't truncate the data if the given length is smaller than the datab...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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