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DataStage

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Issue with Kafka connector within DataStage.

Current State: When a DataStage job fails while reading from a Kafka connector, the records read from the queue before the runtime failure are marked as "read" and removed from the queue, despite the record not being passed out of the connector an...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

The Hadoop name node GetFile Operation slowing down the job performance

While the dataset is getting generated, the segmented files with zero byte gets created first then the process start filling the data on the segmented files sequentially. If there isn’t enough volume to fill all the 8 segments ( CSDP uses 8 segmen...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

connector to Active MQ - AMQ

We would like to have a connector for JMS and/or Active MQ for DataStage. AMQ can support multiple APIs and protocols. Is it possible to build custom connector/logic to connect AMQ from Datastage ? https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need a DataStage super operator role with export permission

We have a requirement due to SOX auditing rules that developers can have read-only access to the DataStage jobs in production. However, we would still like the developers to be able to export the jobs so they can be moved to the non-prod environme...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Seperate user's access roles privilege for the Datastage Designer client and Director client

Privilege to assign user access roles in Administrator client separately for Datastage Designer client access and Datastage Director client access.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Online InfoSphere backup

Currently the backup requires the InfoSphere services to be shutdown, before the application and database backup can be taken. We would like to be able to create a full system online backup, while the InfoSphere services are still running.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support for Reject link on Kafka connector.

We have a requirement to publish message on a Kafka topic from a database and only publish them once. Problem is when using the Kafka connector as target it don't support a reject link. So how do I get a notice if message fails? Kafka Connector se...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Relocate the BQ connector connection information from bottom of log to top of log

Currently, when using the BQ connector in DataStage On-Prem, the connection information used to connect to the GOOGLE BQ environment, including the transaction ID is placed in the log at the end of the job process. It would be more helpful to have...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Re-Start DataStage job (or sequence) with identical parameter settings

It would be a huge benefit to get an simple option to start a job or sequence with the identical parameter settings of the last run. Having Jobs with many parameters and parameter sets this takes time to do it manually and the parameters have to b...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Be able to add or remove stages on a link in DataStage Designer

Currently when you want to add a new stage on an existing link, you have to deconnect the link from one of its stage, add the new stage and create a new link from that stage (remapping the Input columns to the Output, which is currently not possib...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists