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DataStage

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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...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

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 ...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

CLI to set property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” for DataStage projects

We use the property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” at project level in some DataStage projects. To define the message handler, we start the "InfoSphere DataStage Administor" tool, select the DataStage project, then button "Properties" and tab...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Datastage Debugger - Add more funcationality

Add more functionality to the debugger such as:- Keyboard shortcuts to the menu items (Step to next link, step to next row)- Continue on break point for the next Nth number of rows- Stop at break point if watched column ever has specified value - ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to be able to import common Cobol Copy book format

System: BigIntegrateActor: User needing enhancement to existing feature Nationwide is moving processing from mainframe to hdfs for analytics. There are hundreds of COBOL copybooks describing the metadata of the sources and targets, and there is mu...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Migration Tool Oracle to DB2

Transform Connector Migration Tool to transform Oracle Connector to DB2 Connector
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Make a FastTrack a tool suitable for designing and documenting ETL mapping

The InfoSphere tool suite is missing a piece.It is a great tool to govern you data warehouse using IGC with the business glossary, data lineage viewer among the highlights and it is a great tool to create the ETL flows in. What about the inbetween...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make designer handle large screen

Please make DataStage Designer able to support large Screen The current resolution is not satisfying.See : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR33780
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Wait For File stage - timer as a parameter

When specifying a time out for the wait for file stage, it'd be nice if this value could be passed in as a parameter. Also it'd be nice to have it not log a warning in the logs when the stage does timeout if you've drawn a link with the trigger co...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Adding support for Oracle12c in IIS 8.5

Requesting DataStage 8.5 fix pack 3 version to be certified to connect to 12c version of Oracle databases.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration