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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 ...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 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
almost 7 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...
over 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
over 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 ...
over 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 .
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

File Connector - reject link not supported

Hi, We are using Parquet format files and there appears to be an issue with File Connector not supporting the Reject links for Parquet. This is a road blocker for our NextGen Migration as existing BDFS stage jobs will be replaced with File Connect...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Need Progress DataDirect for ODBC for Google BigQuery Driver 8.0, Apache Cassandra Driver Version 8.0 certified by IBM

Hello Team, We are looking for the Latest drivers for the Google Big query, Cassandra, we see that Progress DataDirect for ODBC for Google BigQuery Driver 8.0, Apache Cassandra Driver Version 8.0 drivers are not yet certified by IBM , can you plea...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

BQ connector (Source ) to use Gzip Compress option

While reading from BQ table , In the background the connector should be using a Gzip compression method to compress the file and load to GCS, From GCS bucket the data should be read.This process will generate the most optimal performance while rea...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

BQ connector (target) to use Gzip Compress option

To improve performance for BQ connector ( Target) . Google had recommended to Gzip the files while loading to GCS and then merge the data to BQ table .
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered