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information server sap pack - need encryption with idoc stage

In the Information Server pack for sap, the abap extract stage has an SNC capability-to encrypt data. Need the same ability with the idoc extract and idoc load stages.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Spaces in Column Name - unstructured stage or any Stage

Our team uses dataStage unstructured Stage for our integration nd ETL. However, we have Column names that have spaces, and unstructured Stage currently has limit on Column names not to have spaces. This limit should be extended and spaces should b...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Oracle connector : support of SDO_GEOMETRY data types

we are not able to insert GEOMAP data to oracle DB. We opened case with IBM #TS003869041 and they informed us that SDO_GEOMETRY is not a supported Oracle data type target for DataStage and asked us to open RFE.
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to use Surrogate Key Generator in DataStage for Netezza DBMS

We are trying to use the balanced optimizer feature in DataStage 9.1 to rewrite the ETL logic in SQL that runs on the Netezza appliance instead of the DataStage server. We are looking for a way to generate the surrogate keys that works in DataStag...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Salesforce Connector doesn't support Bulk Load for Salesforce Objects where PK Chunking is not enabled or not supported

Salesforce Connector within DataStage currently has two options for retrieving data 1) Real-Time Query Mode2) Bulk Mode But the Bulk Mode functionality is currently limited only to Salesforce objects that support PK Chunking. Working with Salesfor...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Connections model needs to be enhanced

Currently connections model (for Cloudant specifically) only works with admin credentials. Admin credentials should not be exposed to the users.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Salesforce Connector - Datastage V11.5 - API 40

We are implementing SalesForce and we need to connect to API 40. The actual connector don't connect a we recieved the Invalid Login error message.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Purge Functionality in Salesforce Connector to avoid records hitting recyclebin

Dear Team, I would like to get the following functionalities in Salesforce Connector 1. Capability to retrieve object structure from Salesforce connector2. Capability to call a purge API to hard delete the records from the object to avoid recycle ...
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

InfoSphere DataStage to support Oracle Advanced Security (OAS)

We have sensitive data in Oracle Database, and when running ETL, those data could be read to InfoSphere server, and there could be risk when read data from Oracle to InfoSphere server or write this kind of sensitive data to Oracle database. Oracle...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

DB2 Connector Stage - Truncate options

DB2 Connector stage - Truncate does not have options available to add to the Truncate command
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists