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Add a Merge Key Columns option to the Full Outer Join

When doing a Full Outer Join in the Join Stage, you will receive two Sets of Key Columns in the Output named leftRec_Keycolumnname and rightRec_Keycolumnname, for which you then have to do something like NullToValue(leftRec_Keycolumnname,rightRec_...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Log specifics of 'missing engine OS privileges'

As per TS004304542, we get errors like the above, but there is nothing to indicate precisely which permission is missing. This makes it hard to track down issues.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add a bulk edit option for link sorting/partitioning

When sorting in the sort stage you edit the options of serveral keys together (i call this bulk edit, see picture aha2 and aha3), unfortunately this is not possible for keys when sorting on the input link of a stage. Especially when doing stuff li...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release

Group level credential mapping

Information Server admin console or Command line interface does not have a feature to credential map IIS group to engine credentialing ID. Please develop at least CLI command to credential map IIS group to engine user. This would allow all group u...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5 DataStage support Date and Time data type for Parquet

We have been using IIS 11.5 with FP2 for couple years now for Hadoop data ingestion. New version of Parquet has provide date, time date type. Other tools and language has adopted this very quickly. Now we have received a lot of request to load Dat...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

New Role in DataStage

To satisfy the segregation of duties risk requirement we need a new admin role with below functionality.Assign project roles to InfoSphere DataStage suite users in the InfoSphere DataStage Administrator client •Use the Administrator client to crea...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Request to add more stages in DFD Palette

We'd like to request for additional stages, "DRS connector" and "Checksum" stages in the web-based DFD (Data Flow Designer). Currently our ETLs are using those stages and not available in the DFD interfaces. It's not urgent but in near future if w...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Query / Set DS Project NLS setting using command line

Need command line option to query & set NLS setting for a datastage project. currently it is handled thru GUI which is very time consuming for large volume of projects and looking for options to validate / automate programmatically.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

HOT BACKUP (online) for DataStage Enviroment

We are wondering if there is some solution to do HOT Backup of DataStage environment ( online without necessary to turn on server maintenance mode, turning off active services, etc.). Our platform currently running 24/7? Is there a possibility of ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration