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Support of IBM DB2 Data Server Driver Package (instead of DB2 Data Server Client)

Support of the different DB2 Data Server Driver Packages instead/in addition to DB2 Data Server Client. The big advantage is, that the Driver Packages are much smaller and also easier to install. Also they don't need any additional DB2-User.
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Share WKC Metadata by column with DataStage

(I'll post a second Idea with Watson Studio also) When Data Assets have been documented/Business Metadata has been added, like Description, Business Term and so, this is a great value for Data Engineers. They need this information to build their d...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

HASH function

Currently the HASH function is implemented as a "User Defined Function" within DataStage. This functionality was developed as-is so it's not working when trying to optimize the job with BalOpt. DataStage development team took the Hash code provi...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Compatibility with SAP S/4 HANA 2021

Our company is upgrading from SAP ECC to SAP S/4 2021. We use datastage to retrieve data from SAP via SAP PACK for application 8.2.0.1. Our existing jobs continue to work with S/4 2021. On the other hand, it is not possible to generate a new ABAP ...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Add the function "managing message handlers" in CP4D UI

We would like to implement any jobs that branches on warning or not.But we can't implement this jobs, because the specific Stage in parallel jobs output trivial warning. For example, the Funnel Stage always output following warning when two tables...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

different behavior with Snowflake & Oracle connector for the Column name

In source connector, SQL column names are having name, which is different in stage columns list (like APPLICATION_NUMBER as APPL_NUM in column tab list). In Oracle connector, though the names are different in SQL and columns list, it will internal...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

New Role in DataStage

To satisfy the segregation of duties risk requirement we need a new admin role with below functionality.Assign project roles to InfoSphere DataStage suite users in the InfoSphere DataStage Administrator client •Use the Administrator client to crea...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Balanced Optimization support Teradata temporal features

Balanced optimization should support the properties related to Teradata temporal tables included on the Datastage Teradata Connector.See also support case: TS001785246
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Information Service Director Maintenance mode

I have multiple Information Server engine tiers. I have enabled load balancing from the ISD console to take advantage of the engines. I need a way to gracefully stop one engine for maintenance, such that the in-flight transaction is processed, and...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage FlowDesigner add support for multi invocation of a job

DataStage Designer/Director support Multiple Invocations but the FlowDesigner (v11.7.1.1) does not support it. Please provide support for multi invocations for Sequences and parallel Jobs. That's a important feature that should not be thrown away ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration