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DataStage

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Option to stop REST API calls from redirect

Currently if a REST response contain 'location' element, the redirect is transparent and there is no way to intercept the redirect. We need the option to not follow the redirect sometimes only to get the and process the location before the redirect.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Kafka Connector should support schema compatibility set to FULL

Kafka Connector job failed with schema compatibility mode set to FULL. We got error "Schema being registered is incompatible with an earlier schema; error code: 409". Currently user has to change the Kafka schema compatibility mode to NONE from Po...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Utility for multiple job compile at server level

Hi Team, I'm looking for a Utility at server level for multiple job compile. I want to know whether DataStage have any utility for mutilple job compile at server level? I know that we have dscc.exe at client level to perform compilation! I want th...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Record level Information Required in DSODB Database

We are pulling Job level information from DSODB and looking for Record level Information but we do not see the required information. Please let us know how to pull the following: 1. Average_Record_Length 2. Input_Volume_In_Bytes 3. Output_Volume_I...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage

Using Datastage 11.5.0.1 "File Connector Stage", We ask to implement the mapping from an input field defined as Decimal (17,2) to a target avro field defined as "type":["bytes","null"],"logicalType":"decimal","precision":"17","scale":"2" into the ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DFD Icons

We need that read-only dfd (Datastage Flow Designer) users are not able to click the icons and links corresponding to the operations they cannot perform. For example, We would like that read-only user not to be able to click on the job creation link.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow for scripting of DataStage environment variable export.

Hi, This is a enhancement request to facilitate the scripting of the export of DataStage environment variables to a file. This operation can be manually executed using the DataStage Administrator client but I cannot find an equivalent command whic...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improper error handling

Ineffective error handling in application exposes internal application information to application users, which can help the enumeration of application components by an attacker. Impact Any leakage of internal application information may provide de...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage S3 connector to have the ability to ingest fixed width files

At present the AWS S3 connector in DataStage is only able to import de-limited files. In order to ingest fixed width files a workaround has to be used to extract the data from S3 and place it on a file system first so that DataStage can import it....
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

ODBC Driver for postgresql 14

Hello Team, the client he works for needs the use of the odbc driver for postgresql 14. It was confirmed to me in the case that I opened to support that progress has already certified version 14 of postgress but IBM has not yet started to distribu...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration