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Please Add Red Hat 9 as the support OS for IBM DataStage 11.7 or the next available version of DataStage

We are currently on DataStage 11.7.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.9 which will be out of support soon. We need to migrate our DataStage installation for Red Hat version 9. We need DataStage 11.7 to support Red Hat 9.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release

Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
7 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Add Table Action Truncate for BigQuery Connector

On CP4D DataStage NextGen the table actions available for BigQuery connector currently are Append and Replace. According official docs: Method Description Append Append creates the table if the table doesn’t exist. If the table already exists, no ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Information Service Director Maintenance mode

I have multiple Information Server engine tiers. I have enabled load balancing from the ISD console to take advantage of the engines. I need a way to gracefully stop one engine for maintenance, such that the in-flight transaction is processed, and...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Functional difference between Datastage V11.7 and V11.5.

The client has just migrated their Datastage jobs to V11.7 but they have an issue with variable names in the migrated rules. Although the lab managed to reproduce the issue, they responded two days ago stating that they do not have a workaround fo...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

New Role in DataStage

To satisfy the segregation of duties risk requirement we need a new admin role with below functionality.Assign project roles to InfoSphere DataStage suite users in the InfoSphere DataStage Administrator client •Use the Administrator client to crea...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Request to add more stages in DFD Palette

We'd like to request for additional stages, "DRS connector" and "Checksum" stages in the web-based DFD (Data Flow Designer). Currently our ETLs are using those stages and not available in the DFD interfaces. It's not urgent but in near future if w...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Balanced Optimization support Teradata temporal features

Balanced optimization should support the properties related to Teradata temporal tables included on the Datastage Teradata Connector.See also support case: TS001785246
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Performing an update of InfoSphere Information Server fix corrupts Datastage projects

"At Banco Popular client, the fix pack for IBM InfoSphere Information Server Version 11.7 had to be installed. However, during the installation, a backup was created, which takes the client 3 days. During the case response period, it was found tha...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration