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Connectivity

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Supress metadata check in ODBC connector

The ODBC connector compares the metadata in DataStage with the metadata in the target system. When there is a mismatch in the metadata, warnings are issued in the DataStage Director log.Please add an option, so this check can be disabled for speci...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Decimal Data Data type support for DataStage File Connector

Currently DataStage 11.5 does not support Decimal Data type with its File Connector. This RFE is to request the File Connector decimal data type support.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Connectivity to Azure Table Storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Hi, I have a business requirement for us to be able to connect to Azure Table Storage to get the technical metadata from the tables which are stored there. Can you please make this connector become available in the next release. The connectors tha...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs. Datastage only is allowed sftp and ftp protocols for long time.
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Support for endpoints in S3 connector

We need to write files into our company amazon s3 bucket with Datastage 11.5.0.2. We cannot tune the S3 Connector component with our specific endpoint, as we could using "endpoint" parameter with aws cli.
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Enabling JDBC/ODBC connection to Azure SQL database (PaaS) using Azure Active Directory Integrated Security (email address) credentail

We have requirement from user for using Azure Active Directory credential (email address) in JDBC connection string from 11.7.1 IGC New or IMAM. Currently IBM's JDBC driver in IGC New or IMAM only work with SQL Server Authentication Credential to ...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Azure connector with SAS token

A shared access signature (SAS) provides a way to grant limited access to objects in the azure storage account to other clients, without exposing the account key.SAS keys are standard practice and with IS v.11.7 not being possible to use it, the i...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Connector Key Columns

Add "Key Columns" as in Netezza Connector also to other Connectors.
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 4 Not under consideration

Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

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...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Planned for future release