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Parameter support when creating standalone database connection assets

When creating a Database connection I would like to use parameters for the connection details. This is currently possible when using flow connection in job but we have a hundreds of job that are allready using existing connection created through i...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

.Net Framework 4.8 Support

.Net Framework 4.8 is often pre-installed on modern PC servers, but Information Server 11.7.1 does not support .Net Framework 4.8. .Net Framework 4.8 should be supported as soon as possible.
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow "Asset Broswer" node in datastage on cp4d to have access to connections that is inside the catalog

It is useful to search for connections using the Asset Broswer node within the DataStage ETL flow designer. However, the Asset Broswer currently can ONLY find the connections that are added as assets within the project that the flow belongs in. Th...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Report functionality for annual review of users within projects that are within ldap groups ou=Datastage

I have attached the below steps it takes for me to get a file of users from a certain project within datastage. I'd love it if there was a report feature to grab these details without all the clicks and file saving. Please look over the document a...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Native Connector for accessing data with Delta on S3 in DataStage Classic

We are building an Open Lakehouse with the data stored with Delta in S3 Storage. Watsonx.data uses the same Open Lakehouse approaches, but is using Iceberg instead of Delta. DataStage as an ETL tool should support a wide range of different technol...
7 months ago in DataStage 1

Error during importing isx file which contain linkage between custom attributes and datastage job stages

Hello, By using istool.sh for importing datastage jobs(isx format) an error encountered .The isx file contains the new custom attribute linked to a job stage. We opened for this topic a PMR -> TS004118355 and IBM support colleagues suggeste...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow compiled versions of a flow/job to be migrated to a target DataStage Environment in NextGen

After a flow/job is moved from QA to PROD, it must currently be recompiled to work. This is not allowed in most production environments as it forces a change in the target environment.
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

MDM Connector for CP4D-DataStage

MDM connector will use API calls that will be directly integrated with MDM server resulting in better performance when processing large data volume. Alternate method for MDM connector is to use web service call which involves xml parsing or using ...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable Custom SQL for AWS Redshift connector

Problem statement: For all our ETL transformations across NYL, we use custom SQL to extract the data. Workaround in POC: We are using JDBC connector to read data from Redshift Database Benefits/values: Using native redshift connector wi...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 3

Questions related to what Linux utilities are being used by IIS

Our security scanners have noticed that multiple files from multiple servers do not have either a user or group ID, or even both. These files seem to be found on the Microservice Tier, as the example below: OS_team: -rw-r--r-- ug_kafka 9092 /v...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review