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DataStage

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Import a DataStage job into a different environment on a different server (Git integration)

Currently, the script dfdGitCli.sh doesn't allow a job to be imported into a slightly different project name on a different server, e.g. from project_dev on erads11.ci.datastage.com to project_tst on erads12.ci.datastage.com. Given that our work f...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Project specific GIT repository in GIT Setup server TAB of Dataflow Designer tool

Summary of Observation: We do have different projects in our datastage application. Each project is having its own GIT repository in Bit bucket & Facing 2 different functionalities missing in DFD tool. Scenario -1: As per our GIT repository se...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Remove need for plain text password when installing patches.

installUpdates command currently requires you to pass user credentials as plain text on command line.
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

DB stages should have options to disable "view data"

View Data options could be disabled for users. there should be an option for enabling /disabling view data based upon users/projects/jobs/environment variable level
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

HL7 parser/creator/connector

no solution yet
about 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Future consideration

Data Flow Designer GitHub/BitBucket Integration

We are using bitbucket through command line for all our code migration activities. We were hoping to see Data Flow Designer provide a UI based integration with BitBucket and GitHub. However the gap is that for the connectivity to work, GIT needs s...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Add a Merge Key Columns option to the Full Outer Join

When doing a Full Outer Join in the Join Stage, you will receive two Sets of Key Columns in the Output named leftRec_Keycolumnname and rightRec_Keycolumnname, for which you then have to do something like NullToValue(leftRec_Keycolumnname,rightRec_...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Log specifics of 'missing engine OS privileges'

As per TS004304542, we get errors like the above, but there is nothing to indicate precisely which permission is missing. This makes it hard to track down issues.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add a bulk edit option for link sorting/partitioning

When sorting in the sort stage you edit the options of serveral keys together (i call this bulk edit, see picture aha2 and aha3), unfortunately this is not possible for keys when sorting on the input link of a stage. Especially when doing stuff li...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5 DataStage support Date and Time data type for Parquet

We have been using IIS 11.5 with FP2 for couple years now for Hadoop data ingestion. New version of Parquet has provide date, time date type. Other tools and language has adopted this very quickly. Now we have received a lot of request to load Dat...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration