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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

Installer to identify active DataStage processes

While installing patch on DataStage it took 5hrs to complete the installation . After debugging it is found out that there are active processes hung the patch installation . As part of patch installation we set maintenance mode ON . During install...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Big Integrate BDFS stage to support parameters.

This request is an offshoot of Case TS008439858. While migrating new jobs to 11.7 that run in a different hadoop cluster, we have run into an issue writing hdfs data to an encryption zone. Our hadoop team is hesitant to set these cluster wide beca...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage reportdocument images in JPG and not BMP

Want an option to specify image format of JPG in dsdesign.exe
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

FastTrack all mapping folder/project export to csv and/or export all Source field and Target field for all project/folder.

kevinyan (IBM) 28 Apr 2019 ‎10‎:‎00‎ ‎PM Hi Divyesh, As my local test and discussion with IBM internal development team, there is no feature to export all the mapping specifications for the specified project into CSV format, rather than isx ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Display Record Counts on Job Desing Links in Operations Console

When viewing the job Run history in the Operations Console, I would like to be able to select a previous run and then display the job design with the record counts shown on each of the links in the job. Ideally I would also like to be able to see ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve the Aggregator Stage

The Aggregator Stage hasn't change for a long time and there are a lot of things that could be improved, currently a lot of things is done with sorting, keychange and transformer variables (or in a database connector) instead of using a Aggregator...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage to support SQL 2016

We need to be able to use the ODBC Stage in a Server job with SQL 2016
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Change IIS Datastage Cerdential Mapping Model to work with Service IDs that have password set to NP in /etc/shadow file

Bank of America GIS (Global Information Security) Team has asked “InfoSphere Data stage Service ID's (dsadm and others) on Engine Tier to be disabled for interactive login”. GIS policies mandate that Service ID logins should be done through a ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration