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DataStage

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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...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - canvas

When you change something in the job, flow designer changes the layout of the job in the canvas.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0

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...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0

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

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

Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

istool import - add mapping option for FastTrack assets

We would like to add the ability to the istool command to allow for the importing of fasttrack assets using a mapping file along with the isx file.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enabling Single Sign-On for IIS web clients (thin clients) using eTAI within WebSphere Application Server

Need formal support for IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) Enhanced Trust Association Interceptor (eTAI) as a web-SSO mechanism for IIS thin clients (web apps) proxied through ISAM WebSEAL. The eTAI works fine on IE but not on Firefox. It is proba...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make it more difficult to accidentally close windows in DataStage

When working in (for example) a Transformer, if you accidentally click outside of the pop-up window, the window will close like hitting the cancel button and all the work you'd done so far is gone. This can be extremely frustrating. On a similar n...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

XMETA SQL Query via Connector

My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach. Our prop...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration