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FastTrack all mapping folder/project export to csv and/or export all Source field and Target field for all project/folder.

kevinyan (IBM) 28 Apr 2019 ‎10‎:‎00‎ ‎PM Hi Divyesh, As my local test and discussion with IBM internal development team, there is no feature to export all the mapping specifications for the specified project into CSV format, rather than...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Future consideration

Ldap users authentication to ODBC MongoDB drivers in DataStage

Hi, We're trying to work with DataStage and mongodb, Our need is to work with MongoDB with SSL and AD users. We understood that Those drivers supports only SSL for now. We need to enable the logon to MongoDB in DataStage with AD\Ldap users....
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Move fields in a UVA/variable activity

I want to able to move a field/variable in a UVA activity inside a DataStage sequence. Currently you can not change the position of a field in a UVA activity. Especially if you have aleady defined 20 Fields and want to add another one on positi...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Enable copying of links in the Designer

Currently links can not be copied standalone, you can copy a stage/activity and delete the stage and all links you don't want to achieve the result. Especially for Stages where you have no Mapping folder (i.e. Shared Container, Modify Stage) to ge...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enable dynamic selection of Parameterset Valuefiles in Sequences

I want to have the possibility to dynamically choose which Valuefile of a Parameterset i use when starting a Job/Sequence inside a Sequence. Currently you can only Propagate the Valuefile choosen when starting the Calling Sequence or choose a fixe...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Future consideration

Enable the setting of non key partitioning of a link on the canvas via right click

Currently when Setting the partitioning of a link you have to go inside a stage to the Input and Partitioning Tab, which e.g. in case of the transformer or lookup stages takes 4 clicks to get there (the shortcut via right click on the stage and se...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Enable "Data flow cycle" in Parallel Jobs

Currently "Data flow cycle" are not allowed in DataStage PX as described in the error message IIS-DSEE-TFSR-00035. This maybe is correct for most cases to prevent wrong design, but it would be very usefull when working with parent-child hierarchie...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

CLI to set property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” for DataStage projects

We use the property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” at project level in some DataStage projects. To define the message handler, we start the "InfoSphere DataStage Administor" tool, select the DataStage project, then button "Properties" and tab...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Datastage Debugger - Add more funcationality

Add more functionality to the debugger such as:- Keyboard shortcuts to the menu items (Step to next link, step to next row)- Continue on break point for the next Nth number of rows- Stop at break point if watched column ever has specified value - ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to be able to import common Cobol Copy book format

System: BigIntegrateActor: User needing enhancement to existing feature Nationwide is moving processing from mainframe to hdfs for analytics. There are hundreds of COBOL copybooks describing the metadata of the sources and targets, and there is mu...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration