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My votes: DataStage

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Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Ability to pass query params in SAP Odata Stage

Currently Odata stage is able to connect to a SAP system and select a service or table but there is no way we are able to pass any parameters to extract only a limited set of data
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Parameter support when creating standalone database connection assets

When creating a Database connection I would like to use parameters for the connection details. This is currently possible when using flow connection in job but we have a hundreds of job that are allready using existing connection created through i...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

IIS 11.7 Configure the Operations Console to use the ssh program rather than the rsh

Context: IIS on Hadoop is configured by using engine tier on edge node topology. When you run your job on this environment and if you want analyze the performance stats on each worker node then its not available because the communication protocol ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Report functionality for annual review of users within projects that are within ldap groups ou=Datastage

I have attached the below steps it takes for me to get a file of users from a certain project within datastage. I'd love it if there was a report feature to grab these details without all the clicks and file saving. Please look over the document a...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

HOT BACKUP (online) for DataStage Enviroment

We are wondering if there is some solution to do HOT Backup of DataStage environment ( online without necessary to turn on server maintenance mode, turning off active services, etc.). Our platform currently running 24/7? Is there a possibility of ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Request to update document the instruction to upload CSV files via Web browser on Data transform

Update the following document with the instruction how to upload CSV files via Web browser on Data transform. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQNUZ_2.5.0/cpd/access/data-sources.html
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Request for New DataStage Project Role -- DataStage Monitor

Request for a New DataStage Project Role -- "DataStage Monitor". Currently the existing 4 DataStage Project Roles does not cover all the user case criteria that our Team has. GIS Compliance and Internal Bank Policies mandate that DataStage Develop...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

We want to operate on ClickHouse DB and connection between DS 11.7.1.3

Our customer who is using Datastage 11.7.1.3 wants to write to ClickhouseDB from different sources and write to different sources from ClickhouseDB, but currently DS does not support it, if it is supported as soon as possible, ClickhouseDB is both...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration