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Option to write informational or warning messages to flow log

Several customers use this option currently in DataStage 11.7. to write calculated values like UserStatus to the Job Log. In the past Basic Functions like DSLogWarn and DSLogInfo are available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=programmin...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Adding Debug capabilities to DataStage NextGen

Customers migrating from the legacy DataStage 11.x are missing the debug capabilities (setting breakpoints and running in debug mode) when moving to DataStage NextGen. DataStage developers are affected by the missing functionality.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Databricks connector

Adding a Databricks connector to DataStage could bring several benefits. Here are a few reasons why it could be a good idea: Enhanced Data Integration: A Databricks connector would allow seamless integration between DataStage and Databricks, enabl...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Support for having origin to read from Azure ADLS/Blob File Shares

Product - IBM StreamSets | Data Collector Customer have a use case where they need to read data from ADLS File Shares. It could be achieved through Groovy scripting using Groovy origin; However, having a dedicated stage for it would be much helpful.
10 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Detailed Log Files

One of our customers wanted to be able to track which IP the transactions were made from the logs, but we found out that this was not available. This could be very useful. Because if a username is used by more than one user, it is not enough to se...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

IIS IDR Integration via KAFKA

DataStage:Kafka Connector in Information Server 11.7 does not support the use of schema registry or Avro JSON serialisation/deserialisation. IIDR (CDC) for Kafka on the other hand, produces Avro JSON serialised records into topics as default. Usin...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage 11.7.1.5 - support for Openshift 4.17 hypervisor

Our company is preparing to migrate from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. I reviewed the system requirements for the hypervisor list but couldn’t find support for the OpenShift 4.17 hypervisor. It appears that the current version of Dat...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

DataStage Jobs failure because of RCP Issue in BQ Connectors

During BQ ds job run, jobs are getting failed as RCP is enabled 1.RCP is enabled at every stage in a common/multi instance job. 2. There is no option to drop missing columns at BQ connector(Target table) and source data has extra columns which are...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Improve parameter visibility when using job templates

When creating a Job Instance from a Job Template which uses parameters, the created job instance does not recognize or display the parameters in some scenarios. This occurs in the following scenarios: When creating the job template, the default (a...
10 months ago in StreamSets 1 Planned for future release