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DataStage

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audit track for DataStage code change

We have auditing requirements for tracking code changes in DataStage and have a question regarding how to track or capture DataStage changes in Designer. We would like to find away to generate the report that shows what in the Job is modified in a...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

DTS stage - DB2 connector local transaction mode support (non-XA)

The Datastage DTS (Distributed Transaction) stage allows use of different connectors as a target. Currently we use Oracle connector but we have a use-case now for targeting DB2 - we have found that the DB2 connector does not support local transact...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere DataStage Operations console - Authentication request

In current world, once you log into operations console it won't timeout until 12 hours by default. If you set LTPA timeout to your preferences, it will ask for the credentials after the timeout once & then, it never asks for credentials again....
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

DSX file compilation and dsx export feature at the server level (linux os).

At GM we are in a process of implementing DevOps CI/CD pipeline. We have come up with Linux based Datastage auto deployment tool. We wanted to maintain individual DS object dsx file (only design without executable) in bitbucket and then tool to pi...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Snowflake JDBC Driver 3.7 update in Information server 11.5

We upgraded the Snowflake JDBC driver 3.7 in information server 11.5 but the drivers are not working due to incompatibility of Java 1.8 in Information Server 11.5. Please add the functionality in 11.5 to support Java 1.8 to install the JDBC driver...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ability to log warnings having a connector with rejects link

Currently having a connector with a reject link one can only choose to Abort or ignore rejects. I need the option (out of the box) to log warnings. Rejects should be captured - that is why I like a rejects link. Sometimes I do not want to abort ...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration

Automatic cleanup DSODB log files

A management system log files for the DSODB console as implemented for the WAS console, with a number of rotation files, splitted in multiple files according a size parameter. and so on.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Executing Oracle Stored procedures which returns a CURSOR or a REF_CORSOR

Need to be able to run Oracle Procedure that returns a Cursor or a REF Cursor
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

how to reduce the number of generated yarn applications for hive connector stage

Several times of yarn applications is generated when using the hive connector stage in a DS job.For example, we have 6 hive connectors in one of our ds jobs.When the process node in default.apt is set to 2, about 18 yarn applications will be gener...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Set Display size in viwer for PX stages

Want to be able to set the default display size for each column, like is available in server stages. When I have multiple very wide columns, I can't show the first few characters of multiple ​columns in the viewer when they are very wide. A(40),...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration