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Connectivity

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Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Support GCP's Cloud Spanner as the available data sources in CP4D's DataStage

My Clients can transfer and analyze data on only CP4D without buying and develop new software and tool.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

DataStage Snowflake Connector lacking "OAuth" support.

IBM DataStage Snowflake Connector is lacking feature to support OAuth. From Security perspective and risk management department: DTCC as an organization objective all connections to snowflake is - "to leverage OAuth token feature" We need IBM to w...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 6 Not under consideration

Teradata connector restricts max Response Row size to 64K bytes only

We have data sources where column field lengths are in excess of varchar(3000), using the teradata connector with immediate mode, job fails with error "RDBMS code 9990: Response Row size exceeds 64K bytes and is incompatible with the Client softwa...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Enhance IMAM S3 Connector to be compatible with a session token generated by AWS STS service

Upgrade to Amazon S3 connector of IMAM to be comptatible with a STS session token. As for now, the connector can only be set up using accessKey and secretKey and it does not allow to connect to AWS in case the company policy is to make use of a te...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Planned for future release

Rapid Job Update Tool to support Snowflake connector.

Walmart is upgrading to Snowflake , so they are trying to upgrade from Teradata to Snowflake. So Basically, what the ask now is we know there is a RJUT (Rapid Job Update tool) is available. Walmart is looking for some feature built by IBM using RJ...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Allow Ability to Mass Unassign Certificates from a Service

In IBMi Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) you can assign a certificate to multiple Services in a single screen. If you need to remove the certificate assignment you have to go into each service and remove the certificate. For some certificates, th...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 4 Not under consideration

Enhance MettleCI Workbench ServiceNow integration to allow credential specification

We understand that ServiceNow OAuth authentication is a three-way process, Workbench, after initial Oauth handshaking, submits a third party credential to be responsible for the actual queries. We also understand that currently, the third party cr...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Full RFC 4180 support for File Connector / Flat File Stage

Full RFC 4180 support for File Connector / Flat File Stage enables the Stage to read well formatted flat files without any script support / preformating.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Switch connections for an imported and published assets

We currently define WKC connections to import and enrich assets. Over time, those connection details can change with new drivers or a move to new database servers. When the connections change, the assets in the catalog cannot view sample data and ...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration