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DataStage

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User access management

A more granular split for user access on Data Stage Project will be necessary. A new role is needed that will permit for an user to only start a data stage job without the right to edit it. Currently in Cp4D version 4.6.5 when you build the access...
10 months ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

DataStage Support for MQv9.2 and MQv9.3 Required for HSBC (and very likely other users)

This is useful because: HSBC and other enterprise-class customers build standardised packages of software at compatible levels in support of business applications. Re-creation of these standard packages e.g. when a component reaches end of suppo...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

IBM DataStage 11.7 support PostgreSQL13.x and PostgreSQL14 using ODBC Connector under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x

Customer use IIS 11.7. We would like to use ODBC connect to PostgreSQL 13.x and PostgreSQL 14.x database.
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Integration with Spectrum Scale object storage

IBM is involved in implementing data integration solution for State Bank of India using DataStage (version 11.7) and Spectrum Scale (version 5.05). DataStage is supposed to read / write object storage data hosted in Spectrum Scale using Swift prot...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Adding feature for more frequent commits when using DB2 connector

When loading big amount of data into DB2 for Warehousing, we are exceeding DB2 limitation 300GB which means that we need to load the data with more than just one commit. However when using external tables in DataStage, DB2 connector ingores the co...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

kafka connector should be able to read only committed messages

Our Kafka Producer writes messages on a Kafka topic acting transactionally and it could rollback the transaction when certain events occur. As of now, the behaviour of the Kafka connector is to read also uncommitted messages (see case TS003289786)...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Supporting all datatypes in parquet/avro/orc file format, we are really need it on parquet for sure

As of today these “date”, “decimal/numeric”, “timestamp” data types in parquet file format not supported by Datastage 11.5 or 11.7, which is required for critical data migration project.And now we are converting above data type to different format...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

DFD engine as non-root user

As a financial company we have regulations around who get root access, it is strictly reserved only for server administration group personals. Our InformationServer/DataStage administration and support will not get any type of super user access (s...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Move Checkout/In from ISM to Designer

Checkout/In and versioning functionallity should be moved from ISM to the DataStage Designer. Deployment should stay within the ISM. The current implemantation is not practicle, which leads people to not using it and still work with DSX exports...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Datastage Snowflake connector add Key Pair Authentication

Requesting enhancement to use key pair authentication with the datastage snowflake connector rather than using the typical username/password authentication. https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/jdbc-configure.html#using-key-pair-authentic...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered