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Test and provide documentation to provide support for more recent Parquet file formats.

The current Parquet/Orc file instructions provide support for Parquet 1.9.0, which is now 3.5 years old. We have vendors who want to use Parquet to feed their big data lakes, and we are struggling to support them with this old format, even in an i...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Salaesforce API 45

Datastage Salesforce pack is not able to utilize API 45, which cause salesforce objects not able to read.
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

DTS stage - MQ client-mode connection type needs to support SSL/TLS connectivity

The Datastage DTS (Distributed Transaction) stage allows use of IBM MQ as a communication/transport layer - we patched our DTS stage with JR58698 to allow for client connection mode connectivity to de-couple our IBM MQ servers from being co-locate...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

NZ Connector: Calculate Statistics on TWT Tables

Enhance the NZ Connector with an option to generate statistics on twt tables. Missing statistics on automatic generated TWT tables cause wait time for "Update than Insert" for up to 10 minutes, caused by reading the TWT table for insert the data...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Generic to Generic S3 Storage

Clients have storage array that support internal S3 Object Storage Bucket type connection. These can be from various vendors. Such connections will be using generic S3 protocol to establish connectivity to Storage Bucket. However, currently CPD on...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Proxy setting options in Google Cloud Storage Connector

Please provide the option to enter proxy settings in Google Cloud Storage connector just as we have in Google BigQuery connector. This option should be provided for all internet based connections as it is important from security point of view. Ope...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Enhance MERGE operation on BQ Connector

Walmart is adding this as a placeholder for the discussions with IBM concerning the enhancement of the BQ connector MERGE operations per long term support.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

BQ Connector enhancement to perform retry logic within connector

Within the BQ connector, if an error occurs on the connector while connecting to BQ, automatic retry would occur should an error be encountered.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

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 ...
about 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