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Spaces in Column Name - unstructured stage or any Stage

Our team uses dataStage unstructured Stage for our integration nd ETL. However, we have Column names that have spaces, and unstructured Stage currently has limit on Column names not to have spaces. This limit should be extended and spaces should b...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Merge option in Snowflake connector as a load option to overcome the performance issue with insert and update.

We have already discussed the issue with IBM SF developer (Saravanan). Please provide an ETA asap. this is critical showstopper to use SF connector in Datastage.
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

PMR-TS001777097 (Enhancement to Response file generation in the existing SFDC plugin)

Enhancement to Response file generation in the existing SFDC plugin .The change we are looking1) When we load the data in to SFDC the stage should generate 2 types of files 1) request file and 2) response file. Currently only request file is getti...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

loading data with Sales Force Connector for parent child relationships

Hello,We want to use the standard relationship fonction existing in Salesforce between the Parent-Child object while loading the data through Datastage.In the child object, we can specify the External ID of the parent objet and Salesforce automati...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Use decimal function for LIMITKEY value when a partition table is read by DB2 Connector stage of DataStage.

[System]We are planning to transfer data of an old database to a new one using DataStage jobs.Both of the databases are created on DB2 for z/OS.We have two environments. One is a production environment, the other is a rehearsal environment which i...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Support NTLM authentication for API calls using Hierarchial stage or Web services Client within DataStage

As part of our data acquisition we are acquiring data from MDS Microsoft API and it needs NTLM authentication to connect to the API before the data can be acquired using datastage
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

DataStage connection to Universe DB 11.2.5

Hi,We are looking to connect the Universe DB 11.2.5 as source from the Datastage 11.5.0.1 in server job In reference to the PMR 85163,227,000 suggestion we are opening this Enhancement request
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

ETL Datastage - Lower number of connections open toward databases during a job execution

When executing a Datastage job, connections which are open toward the databases (Sybase in our case) are open during the complete execution time of a job even if all "actions" are done. This should be changed (to lower the activity on database sid...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

DataStage Hierarchical stage Rest add Google service account auth.

The Hierarchical stage provides many authentication options including OAuth bearer token. This is required for Google rest calls but expires and must be regenerated. Suggestion is to allow the Google service account json file to be added as an aut...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

DataStage et TERADATA /TIME ZONE

Notre problème : nous travaillons sur Teradata 14 / 15 et nous utilisons le Temporal Data Nous avons un sérieux problème de typage de données avec les versions DataStage 11.3.1.2 et 11.5. Nos Périodes Teradata sont exprimées en TimeStamp de ...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration