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My ideas: Connectivity

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Support for Netezza Performance Server(NPS) v11.X on CP4D

Please support DataStage to NPS on CP4D v11.X or later.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Kafka Connector will support Schema registry authenticate with LDAP and Kerberos.

On Kafka Connector Stage , now IBM support inform me this stage not support authentication of Kafka broker and Schema registry with LDAP and Kerberos.
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 11 Delivered

Salesforce connector : Support SFDC Bulk API 2.0

Bulk API 2.0 simplifies and improves the performance by ability to automatically do chunking - https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_asynch.meta/api_asynch/asynch_api_intro.htm
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Connectivity to Azure Resources using Service Principal approach

General Motors is investigating DataStage NextGen as part of modernization of their current DataStage jobs. As General Motors is heavily invested and focused on Azure, several application teams are leveraging Azure database solutions such as Azure...
11 months ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Enable Redshift Load from the S3 connector

We at NYL planning to move from On Prem to Cloud environment. We did a multiple testings with the help of IBM Support team and noticed that the Redshift loads using Redshift connector/JDBC connector as dead slow. This will impact all of our Target...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

ICP4D v4.6.5 PROD [MDI]: MSSQL Connection Configuration should not have database as mandatory field

We are facing issues while connecting with MSSQL databases from ICP4D/WKC. Typically each VAST ID for the MSSQL database has few instances and hundreds of databases, therefore the connection setting shouldn't have the database field as mandatory. ...
10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

DataStage to support numeric Column Family (CF) in HBase

Currently, DataStage only supports alphabetic (letters) Column Family (CF) in HBase tables and it is a common practice to create numeric CF in HBase tables (e.g. the default CF is zero). Therefore, if CF has a numeric value DataStage cannot write ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 Delivered

Parameter Marker/literal property missing in oracle stage in CP4D

In Stored Procedure stage in IS 11.7.1.x, the Parameter Marker/literal property in Parameter tab can take Datastage Job parameter as a value. This feature is missing in CP4D, due to which the migrated jobs are failing.
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

DataStage connectivity for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Please add a IBM Infosphere DataStage connector or ODBC/JDBC driver in DataStage for connecting with Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Allow Microsoft SQL Server connection to authenticate to Active Directory

The CP4D default Microsoft SQL Server connector does not handle authentication with Active Directory. Instead customers need to create a service account ON the SQL Server itself. This is probably due to lack of properly passing authentication toke...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered