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Executing Oracle Stored procedures which returns a CURSOR or a REF_CORSOR

Need to be able to run Oracle Procedure that returns a Cursor or a REF Cursor
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

how to reduce the number of generated yarn applications for hive connector stage

Several times of yarn applications is generated when using the hive connector stage in a DS job.For example, we have 6 hive connectors in one of our ds jobs.When the process node in default.apt is set to 2, about 18 yarn applications will be gener...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Set Display size in viwer for PX stages

Want to be able to set the default display size for each column, like is available in server stages. When I have multiple very wide columns, I can't show the first few characters of multiple ​columns in the viewer when they are very wide. A(40),...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

filtering out compile changes from the query

Due to the internal code change audit, we are trying to identify the configuration change (code change) from the simple plain compile (sometimes, we compile the job to resolve issues with the aborted job in production) of the datastage jobs. When ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add to DB2 stage a z/os read method using DB2HPU utility

We currently want to improve data extraction process from DB2 z/OS database performance.It would be nice to call UNLOAD utility or DB2HPU using DB2 Connector Stage instead of using SQL queries.As the bulk load method exists to bulk load data to z/...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support ThoughtSpot as a source/ target

We would like to connect to ThoughtSpot as a source/target. Please certify the use of ThoughtSpot.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Increase the Variable length key record to greater 32767

We are getting an error while executing a Datastage job. We didn't see any explanation of this error online. Error: Sort_record_strings,0: Trouble encoding sort keys: Variable-length key "record" length too large (35074), limit is 32767 Please rev...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ISX Export Path and File Name

The DataStage plug-in, in the ISX Export step in UCD doesn't allow to include either the PATH nor the File Name. There is no control on the these things.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Istool command gives "Export failed" when nothing to export

We use the istool.sh command to export parts of XMETA repository. If there is nothing to export, the command returns an "Export failed" message, that causes trouble in our generic error handling functionality. In my opinion the message "Export fai...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Increase the size of varchar column in Z/oS File Stage

When we use the Z/oS File Stage for ingest in a varchar field bigger than 32K the process fail the case for this problem was TS000138743
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration