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Add a Merge Key Columns option to the Full Outer Join

When doing a Full Outer Join in the Join Stage, you will receive two Sets of Key Columns in the Output named leftRec_Keycolumnname and rightRec_Keycolumnname, for which you then have to do something like NullToValue(leftRec_Keycolumnname,rightRec_...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Log specifics of 'missing engine OS privileges'

As per TS004304542, we get errors like the above, but there is nothing to indicate precisely which permission is missing. This makes it hard to track down issues.
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add a bulk edit option for link sorting/partitioning

When sorting in the sort stage you edit the options of serveral keys together (i call this bulk edit, see picture aha2 and aha3), unfortunately this is not possible for keys when sorting on the input link of a stage. Especially when doing stuff li...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Parameterize seed in Repeatable Replacement data masking policy

We would request for enhancing the data masking policy editor in data masking stage to accept job parameter for the seed value when doing repeatable replacement data masking policy
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5 DataStage support Date and Time data type for Parquet

We have been using IIS 11.5 with FP2 for couple years now for Hadoop data ingestion. New version of Parquet has provide date, time date type. Other tools and language has adopted this very quickly. Now we have received a lot of request to load Dat...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Requesting that IBM certify Datastage 11.5 on Power9 and AIX 7.1 TL4

All, We specifically purchased this hardware to host DataStage after reviewing the available documentation on the IBM website(See links below). We are unable to upgrade to 11.7 because we rely heavily on CDC in our processing as well as other comp...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Changes to support automated General Diagnostic Health Checks

System: Applies to the complete InfoSphere Product FamilyActor: System Administrator We need to be able to automate health checks, but the current ISALite has two limitations that would need to be fixed:1) You cannot encrypt passwords as input whe...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Certification of Information server 11.5 to release Cloudera CDH 5.8

Due to critical issues found in the current release (CDH 5.5) we require support of Information Server 11.5 to release CDH 5.8. Please provide us an estimation regarding the availability of this certification in order for us to establish an implem...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

UNIX ODBC Support tools

Information Server on UNIX ODBC Support tools (in /Server/branded_odbc/IBM_Tools/ ) have various problems :- capture_env.ksh : Doesn't work when Information Server Engine administrator is chosen as different user than from "dsadm"- odbc_version.sh...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automatic directory creation on Node managers

We have IS 11.5.0.1 installed on Hadoop HDP 2.4.Customer had to inform their hadoop admin team to create .../InformationServer directory and ISProject directory on Node Managers. Customer is using non default IS Project path ,Every time they are c...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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