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Information Server 11.5 support for Oracle 12R2 (12.2.1)

Oracles latest release 12R2 is unsupported by IBM. This request is for a jdbc driver that is compatible with 12R2.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Enhancement Request: Datastage 11.5 supports SAP products(SCM7.0.1 & SCM7.0.3)

IBM China support team mentioned “The SAP versions officially tested and supported are listed in the SPCR doc (System Requirements), linked from the Release Noteshttps://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/soft...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Create Schema Based on Shared Container Links

When columns of the Shared Container links do not match the metadata of the stage in the job on mapping it, you should have the option to add the missing columns in the schema.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support of Oracle 12 release 2

Are there any plans to provide patches for 11.5 and 11.3 that would make them compatible with Oracle 12.2? Can we escalate a request for those patches to be created? How quickly could we expect a patch if they will create one for us. If we have ou...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Generate schema from SQL statement

In DB2 Connector stage it should be possible to generate the schema based on the (handcoded) Select statement. It could be an additional option of the Tools Button ("Generate schema/columns").
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Integrate GitHub source control with Information Server DataStage and BigIntegrate

Need GitHub integrated with DataStage/BigIntegrate for version control and deployment
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Sequence loop should stop when Director stop request issued

Need to be able to stop a DataStage sequence job loop in response to a job Stop request.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Faster loading of Table Definition with large repositories

Using Datastage Designer 11.5.0.1 on RHEL, we are experiencing a delay (2 to 3 minutes) after clicking the Load button to bring up the table definitions. We have a large repository about >2,000 table definitions.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to schedule job running at higher granularity than a day

As a Job administrator, I would like to schedule jobs running more frequently within a day, maybe running every hour.Currently, Director allows a job to be scheduled to run twice a day. To allow the jobs to run every hour, we have to create 12 sch...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration