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Docment for integrating Infosphere DataStage 11.3 with Oracle wallet (Oracle 12c)

Instructions to setup integration between Infosphere DataStage 11.3 and Oracle Wallet (Oracle 12c)
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

read text files with carriage returns in parallel jobs

PARALLEL job's Sequential File Stage throws an error reading a .csv file that contains a carriage return inside a char/varchar field. There is no option to read the data within a parallel job. SERVER job's Sequential File Stage has the column opti...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support Oracle Dataguard for InfoSphere DataStage

For HA Database Oracle Dataguard is used in Airbus. DataStage shall support Oracle Dataguard for source, target databases and the meta repository
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Parameterize seed in Repeatable Replacement data masking policy

We would request for enhancing the data masking policy editor in data masking stage to accept job parameter for the seed value when doing repeatable replacement data masking policy
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Changes to support automated General Diagnostic Health Checks

System: Applies to the complete InfoSphere Product FamilyActor: System Administrator We need to be able to automate health checks, but the current ISALite has two limitations that would need to be fixed:1) You cannot encrypt passwords as input whe...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Certification of Information server 11.5 to release Cloudera CDH 5.8

Due to critical issues found in the current release (CDH 5.5) we require support of Information Server 11.5 to release CDH 5.8. Please provide us an estimation regarding the availability of this certification in order for us to establish an implem...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

UNIX ODBC Support tools

Information Server on UNIX ODBC Support tools (in /Server/branded_odbc/IBM_Tools/ ) have various problems :- capture_env.ksh : Doesn't work when Information Server Engine administrator is chosen as different user than from "dsadm"- odbc_version.sh...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automatic directory creation on Node managers

We have IS 11.5.0.1 installed on Hadoop HDP 2.4.Customer had to inform their hadoop admin team to create .../InformationServer directory and ISProject directory on Node Managers. Customer is using non default IS Project path ,Every time they are c...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Surrogate Key Reset after failure of parallel DataStage job as state file is left as Truncated.

If a job fails at the while the parallel engine transformer function NextSurrogateKey() is updating the key state file,it is possible that the state file will be left in a truncated state. To a later job, the TRUNCATED state file looks just a NEW ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Synchronizing two head nodes in grid environment

In order for Walmart to run their Grids, 24x7x365 the are implementing multiple head nodes for the same grid. That way if a 6 hour patch comes in, they can take one head node down, patch it, bring it up, and then do the other. In all they lose onl...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration