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Connectivity

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Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

CP4D 4.0.2 Datastage (Tahoe) – Apache Kafka Connector custom functionality

We need the possibility to extend the Apache Kafka Connector with custom functionality. We are using AVRO SerDe + Confluent Schema Registry but the message payload is encrypted using in-house libraries. When reading events, first we need to decryp...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Kafka Connector job failed when schema compatibility mode set to FULL

TS006561571 We have IIS 11.7.1.1 with SP1 installed on RedHat 7. Users are using Kafka Connector stage to publish message with Avro schema. The job success when Kafka schema compatibility set to NONE. But the job failed with error "Schema being re...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Proxy setting options in Google Cloud Storage Connector

Please provide the option to enter proxy settings in Google Cloud Storage connector just as we have in Google BigQuery connector. This option should be provided for all internet based connections as it is important from security point of view. Ope...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

DataStage server jobs are failing due to no ODBC connector support to load data into Snowflake database

Currently, we have several DataStage server jobs designed to solve a specific problem and running fine to extract data sourcing from flat files & SQL servers and targeting to Netezza database. Now we are in the process of migrating the on-prem...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Add SQLTables, SQLColumns, SQLStatistics, SQLSpecialColumns to ODBC API to connect MS Access ODBC

Issue with importing table definition from MS Access DB using Sequelink driver. Receiving unsupported functions on "SQLPrimaryKeys & SQLForeignKeys". Per technote we are trying to access Access DB using Sequelink tool DataStage ODBC drivers fo...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

CP4D needs to support connecting with the DataStax drivers that are needed in order to provide a fully functional hybrid solution

In order for CP4D to support a fully functional hybrid solution with DataStax, CP4D needs to support connecting with the same drivers DataStax supports. Currently these drivers are: DataStax ODBC Driver for Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Salesforce Plugin Authentication Enhancement

Update 6/23 - Main question for Aha is on NTLM Authentication support for Salesforce connector. See below for more details from Dayo Nelson (images attached): We currently use Salesforce plugin stage with proxy and no proxy ID and password. The pr...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Support for MongoDB version 4.x

Currently there is ODBC drivers for older versions of MongoDB but not for the latest version
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Support Oracle 19c multitenant on datastage

Oracle 19c is now the next long term version for Oracle. A new functionality on Oracle is Multitenant. We would like to have the possibility to use Multitenant when using the Oracle database as Datastage Repository and When connecting from Datasta...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists