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Status Not under consideration
Workspace DataStage
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 19, 2019

Enable the setting of non key partitioning of a link on the canvas via right click

Currently when Setting the partitioning of a link you have to go inside a stage to the Input and Partitioning Tab, which e.g. in case of the transformer or lookup stages takes 4 clicks to get there (the shortcut via right click on the stage and selecting the linkname does not work here). This seems ok for partitioning types where you have to define a key (hash, modulus), but this could be much easier for non key partitioning types (Auto, DB2, entire, same, random, round robin).

I would like to be able to just right click on a link and have a "convert partitioning to same" or "convert partitioning to auto", like the "convert to stream/reject/reference". Also it would be nice if the right click on the stage and then left click on the linkname would work for all stages to directly get to the coresponding partitioning tab.

This would reduce the number of clicks needed e.g. to set a couple of links to SAME partitioning and therefore would increase the Overall user expiereince and useabillity of the DataStage Designer

This Idea has already been entered as an RFE

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=76409