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Status Not under consideration
Workspace DataStage
Created by Guest
Created on May 11, 2016

Disable a stage/path on canvas

Be able to toggle stages and execution paths as on/off. Gray out the stage icon if it's been deactivated. During development and debugging you want to be able to test up to a certain point and but may not want to include every aspect. But if you delete it off the canvas then you have to add it all back in again and you may lose a lot of configuration.

Workaround that I've seen is to make a copy of a job and strip out everything you're not interested until you get the one part you are interested in working. But then you have to copy your new development back into the configuration of the original job.
6 MERGED

Add the option to disable Stages/Activities in designer at designtime

Merged
It would be nice to be able to mark one or several stages/activities in DataStage Jobs/Sequences and then rightclick->disable. The stages/activities would then be grayed out and when compiling these stages/activities and links that are attached...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration