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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...
over 4 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...
over 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...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Surrogate Key Reset after failure of parallel DataStage job as state file is left as Truncated.

If a job fails at the while the parallel engine transformer function NextSurrogateKey() is updating the key state file,it is possible that the state file will be left in a truncated state. To a later job, the TRUNCATED state file looks just a NEW ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Synchronizing two head nodes in grid environment

In order for Walmart to run their Grids, 24x7x365 the are implementing multiple head nodes for the same grid. That way if a 6 hour patch comes in, they can take one head node down, patch it, bring it up, and then do the other. In all they lose onl...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced mathematical functions for larger data types

Some Mathematical functions accept dfloat as input but in output are restricted to int32. These functions need to be expanded to be able to return int64 values
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ansible solution for USPS & QSAVI modules periodic reference files updates

IBM releases monthly/quarterly updates to the reference files for both USPS & QSAVI wherein we need to manually login to the IBM passport advantage portal and download the files and then apply them on our environment. We are looking for an aut...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

iSeries support DB2 UDB API stage DataStage 11.5

We would like the DB2 UDB API stage to be certified for use against the iSeries database on DataStage 11.5 to allow for a gradual migration of the existing jobs using the DB2 UDB API stage to the DB2 connector
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Job Activity by compute node

Problem: How to determine which job caused high CPU usage on a specific compute node. Workaround: Using the IIS console 'Activity > Resources' narrow down the window of the event that occurred on the specific compute node. Parse the 'dslogger' ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Hide password arguments which is invoked in instance of dsidocsvr

We need to fix the issue: Passwords are visible on operation system level when the process is running ( command uses the password as parameter ). Thanks For example: dsad1er 2359796 1 0 May 03 - 38:49 dsidocsvr UVHOME=/opt/IBM/InformationServer115...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

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