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Private Endpoint Support for Data Stage in IBM Cloud

Submitted on behalf of federico_accetta@it.ibm.com -- please contact him directly A significant number of customer engagements involve hybrid connectivity between IBM Cloud and on-premises environments. However, many core data platform services—sp...
13 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Snowflake Connector Bulk Unload

Hi, We are migrating our Teradata DB to Snowflake on Azure. We are migrating our datastage jobs accordingly. We need to unload large volume of data with Snowflake Connector, using Bulk unload, the same way we do bulk load (CREATE STAGE - COPY INTO...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Azure Synapse supported for ELT run mode

We have many customers who have an appetite for cost-reduction with their cloud warehouses. We have had multiple conversations with customers around leveraging Datastage writing to S3 in iceberg format, to be integrated with the warehouse like Sno...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Improve JSON String Production/Creation

There is an existing known issue documented here . “The schema library manager does not support import of a JSON schema that is based on the IETF (Internet Engineering Task force) JSON schema internet draft.” The lack of support for JSON standard ...
26 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Migrate pipelines from legacy to Cp4d although child job doesn't exist without issues

While migrating pipeline, if the dependent/child flow doesnt exist in target environment, pipeline imported with warning and default id mapped in job activity. This is creating corrupted pipeline in target lane unlike legacy. Also, if any parallel...
28 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improvements to the Transformer Component in CP4D:

- The Variable Stages: only one stage is visible at a time, and it is not possible to view the entry fields with its properties.- The output derivation: if the link is long, it is hard to know what fileds are to be derived, and whihc transfromatio...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0

Setup for DR/Resilience, and dependency between services

The HAScripts ( InfoSvrServices and InfoSvrEngine) do not cover all the processes now required for a full DataStage installation. Some of the processes are set up as services on install e.g in /etc/systemd/system I can see DFDServer InfoSrvKafka I...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Common mechanism in which the certificate can be created at global and platform level and all type of connectors is able to retrieve the required certificate

As of today, the cpd-custom-ca-certs solution only works for Platform connections and doesn't work for DataStage connections. We need the same solution to be available for the DataStage connections as well. Thanks in advance. Please refer to the c...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review