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DataStage

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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

Enhanced mathematical functions for larger data types

Some Mathematical functions accept dfloat as input but in output are restricted to int32. These functions need to be expanded to be able to return int64 values
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

iSeries support DB2 UDB API stage DataStage 11.5

We would like the DB2 UDB API stage to be certified for use against the iSeries database on DataStage 11.5 to allow for a gradual migration of the existing jobs using the DB2 UDB API stage to the DB2 connector
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage would be able to authenticate using Azure active directory using Oauth2

Currently there is no option to use the password less authentication Oauth while connecting to Azure platform. the central team over here is preffering to have Oauth. Request you to consider this as a work request.
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Unable to read SQL stements from file using Goole BigQuery Connector stage.

Need to be able to read SQL stements from file using Goole BigQuery Connector stage.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Partitioned reads from Google BigQuery should permit selection of column used to generate the partition query

BigQuery database supports partitioning of tables like range partitioning and time partitioning. If the table is already partitioned on the database side, then that particular column will be used to create the partition queries: https://cloud.goog...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Spectrum Storage Scale (GPFS) ARM64 Source version for Linux (RHEL9)

Spectrum Storage Scale (GPFS) is needed for new NVIDIA Grace Hopper ARM64 Superchip HPC Nodes.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Missing sparse lookup for Big Query connector Stage on DataStage on CP4D.

Missing sparse lookup for Big Query connector Stage on DataStage on CP4D.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Missing sparse lookup for Postgres Connector Stage on DataStage on CP4D.

Missing sparse lookup for Postgres Connector Stage on DataStage on CP4D.
2 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted