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Re-Start DataStage job (or sequence) with identical parameter settings

It would be a huge benefit to get an simple option to start a job or sequence with the identical parameter settings of the last run. Having Jobs with many parameters and parameter sets this takes time to do it manually and the parameters have to b...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Be able to add or remove stages on a link in DataStage Designer

Currently when you want to add a new stage on an existing link, you have to deconnect the link from one of its stage, add the new stage and create a new link from that stage (remapping the Input columns to the Output, which is currently not possib...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

CLI to set property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” for DataStage projects

We use the property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” at project level in some DataStage projects. To define the message handler, we start the "InfoSphere DataStage Administor" tool, select the DataStage project, then button "Properties" and tab...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Application Without ASLR Protection - RFE is raised for TS008415906 case

Hi Team, As part of security review, below vulnerability has been observed - During an analysis of the application, it was observed that "DSDesign.exe" do not have Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) enabled. ASLR is considered a security be...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) disabled - RFE raised for TS008415900 case

Hi Team, As part of security review, below vulnerability has been observed - The application "DSDesign.exe" executable was not using the DEP protection. Since DEP is disabled, arbitrary exploit codes can be written and executed from memory locatio...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to be able to import common Cobol Copy book format

System: BigIntegrateActor: User needing enhancement to existing feature Nationwide is moving processing from mainframe to hdfs for analytics. There are hundreds of COBOL copybooks describing the metadata of the sources and targets, and there is mu...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Modification of SCD Stage to allow custom date specification

SCD stage inserts new rows (type 2) with the effective date derived from runtime. This is sufficient for updated rows. We would like to specify a different date for initial records.
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve Performance of Aggregator stage with Decimal output

Aggegator is a typical standard stage to implement Sum or Maximum calculation.But Sum or Maximum value can be implemented by Transformer stage.However, the performance of Aggregator stage implementing Sum or Maximum value with Decimal output optio...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

The Hadoop name node GetFile Operation slowing down the job performance

While the dataset is getting generated, the segmented files with zero byte gets created first then the process start filling the data on the segmented files sequentially. If there isn’t enough volume to fill all the 8 segments ( CSDP uses 8 segmen...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

IN and NOT IN in transformer

In parallel transformer(Datastage) IN and NOT IN are not supported,it is being implemented by no of OR and/or OR and NOT operator. Also if any dynamic conditions need to be provided from a single parameter it can not be possible.So IN and NOT IN n...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration