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Connectivity

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DTS stage - MQ client-mode connection type needs to support SSL/TLS connectivity

The Datastage DTS (Distributed Transaction) stage allows use of IBM MQ as a communication/transport layer - we patched our DTS stage with JR58698 to allow for client connection mode connectivity to de-couple our IBM MQ servers from being co-locate...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

NZ Connector: Calculate Statistics on TWT Tables

Enhance the NZ Connector with an option to generate statistics on twt tables. Missing statistics on automatic generated TWT tables cause wait time for "Update than Insert" for up to 10 minutes, caused by reading the TWT table for insert the da...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Enhance MERGE operation on BQ Connector

Walmart is adding this as a placeholder for the discussions with IBM concerning the enhancement of the BQ connector MERGE operations per long term support.
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

BQ Connector enhancement to perform retry logic within connector

Within the BQ connector, if an error occurs on the connector while connecting to BQ, automatic retry would occur should an error be encountered.
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Logging the Google BQ job id in IBM DataStage logs for unique search-ability based on BQ job id

When diagnosing DataStage job failures, especially on the BQ target/source side, it is difficult to trace the problem cause due to the lack of the JobID especially on busy environments. This would be for both the BQ Connector as well as the Simba ...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Extending temp file creation in BQ to include microseconds

The file names are not having the full microseconds. it is stopping with only 3 milliseconds and all the files are getting created with 4 zeroes at the end. node 4 and node 21 tried to create the file with the same name bigQueryTempFile20210415133...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

BQ connector parallelism solution for export job flow

The BQ connector has issues with exporting data from BQ to DataStage on-prem solution in a parallel mode. Would like it to work in parallel
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Increase data block size when writing to BQ/Google Cloud

Maximize your single stream performance by uploading >16MB objects if you can control the object size, as there is a significant knee of the curve as the object size increases from 2 to 16 MB. Doing so will very likely also decrease your Cloud ...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

BQ connector to support Before sql/After sql(Fail on Error(Yes/No))

we want to control if the job should fail or not with before / after sql statement , just like how we handle in Teradata connector .
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Upgrade Hive Connector to access HiveServer2 databases (instead of only HiveServer today)

We want to be able to use the Hive Connector stage against HiveServer2 databases.With the current version of the driver com.ibm.isf.jdbc.hive.HiveDriver, this is not possible (refer to Case Number TS000045025). Thank you
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered