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DataStage

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Enable copying of links in the Designer

Currently links can not be copied standalone, you can copy a stage/activity and delete the stage and all links you don't want to achieve the result. Especially for Stages where you have no Mapping folder (i.e. Shared Container, Modify Stage) to ge...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enable dynamic selection of Parameterset Valuefiles in Sequences

I want to have the possibility to dynamically choose which Valuefile of a Parameterset i use when starting a Job/Sequence inside a Sequence. Currently you can only Propagate the Valuefile choosen when starting the Calling Sequence or choose a fixe...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Enable the setting of non key partitioning of a link on the canvas via right click

Currently when Setting the partitioning of a link you have to go inside a stage to the Input and Partitioning Tab, which e.g. in case of the transformer or lookup stages takes 4 clicks to get there (the shortcut via right click on the stage and se...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Data flow cycle" in Parallel Jobs

Currently "Data flow cycle" are not allowed in DataStage PX as described in the error message IIS-DSEE-TFSR-00035. This maybe is correct for most cases to prevent wrong design, but it would be very usefull when working with parent-child hierarchie...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Display Record Counts on Job Desing Links in Operations Console

When viewing the job Run history in the Operations Console, I would like to be able to select a previous run and then display the job design with the record counts shown on each of the links in the job. Ideally I would also like to be able to see ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve the Aggregator Stage

The Aggregator Stage hasn't change for a long time and there are a lot of things that could be improved, currently a lot of things is done with sorting, keychange and transformer variables (or in a database connector) instead of using a Aggregator...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage to support SQL 2016

We need to be able to use the ODBC Stage in a Server job with SQL 2016
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Change IIS Datastage Cerdential Mapping Model to work with Service IDs that have password set to NP in /etc/shadow file

Bank of America GIS (Global Information Security) Team has asked “InfoSphere Data stage Service ID's (dsadm and others) on Engine Tier to be disabled for interactive login”. GIS policies mandate that Service ID logins should be done through a ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage Debugger - Add more funcationality

Add more functionality to the debugger such as:- Keyboard shortcuts to the menu items (Step to next link, step to next row)- Continue on break point for the next Nth number of rows- Stop at break point if watched column ever has specified value - ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to be able to import common Cobol Copy book format

System: BigIntegrateActor: User needing enhancement to existing feature Nationwide is moving processing from mainframe to hdfs for analytics. There are hundreds of COBOL copybooks describing the metadata of the sources and targets, and there is mu...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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