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Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - error visibility

When we have a setup problem/error in the hierarchy stage in the mapping Step or output step, the Datastage designer visibly mentions them at the moment in the regular DataStage designer. But that isn't the case with the flow designer, you have to...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0

DFD Hierachical Stage should be able to read data from the data stream

In DFD, no string set can be selected in the Hierachical Stage under Assembly Editor - 2. XML_Parser. Only a single XML file can be selected here. In DataStage Designer, however, this functionality of the Hierachical Stage is available with the As...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

DataStage S3 connector should be enhanced to support multiprotocol S3 bucket connection.

Currently all S3 connectors provided in DataStage only support nave S3 but not multiprotocol S3. For use cases where user can't map the NAS like region limitation or OCP4 restriction not allowing NAS mount, NAS storage could be configured as S3 bu...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

JDBC Connector support more host in the connection string for mongodb

Hello team, the customer when connecting to mongodb via jdbc connector would need to be able to insert multiple hosts in the connection string instead of just one host as mentioned in the progress documentation that was provided to us by IBM suppo...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add search capability for stages on the designer canvas

If you have very large sequences, it can get difficult to find the job that you need to change as you need to scroll through the whole sequence. It would be very handy to be able to search on the designer canvas based on different criteria (stage ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

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 most...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

DataStage/OEM Compatibility with Windows 2022

We use DataStage 11.7 version in windows 2016 as of now and we create runtime deployment DataStage job artifacts to run through OEM package. Now we are considering to upgrade our system with windows 2022. We need any DataStage version or it's OEM ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Under review

Ajouter la gestion de l'avro dans le composant kafka connector - Add avro management in kafka connector component

Bonjour Le Connector Kafka ne supporte les schémas Avro qu'avec des types simple, pas de "Record", "Array", "Enum" ou "Map". Il faut penser à ajouter la gestion des "Record", "Array", "Enum" ou "Map". impossible de travailler sans ça HelloThe Kafk...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IBM Datastage job migrated from V11.5 to V11.7 and use the Azure File System for storage account

We have migrated our jobs from V11.5 to V11.7 environment and uses soft link to Azure file system (storage account) for users input/output files. users are not allowed to drop files on server local system due to Azure server restriction on our env...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 3 Is a defect

Snowflake connector - Insert new rows only

The current Snowflake connector does not support inserting only new rows using a merge statement if there are only key columns and no attributes. For example, if you want to have every possible unique combination of 2 columns, there is currently n...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration