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How to clone IIS environment

Our IIS environment consists of 3 tiers:• Services tier host• Engine tier host• Metadata repository on Oracle database We are looking into way how to “clone” such an environment and produce a new environment, which is placed on different...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Purge Finished, Aborted or Crashed Multiple-Instance/ISD DataStage Jobs

Need to delete old Datastage job instances that are Finished, Aborted or Crashed in an automated way. It is the same procedure that we do manually in DataStage Director tool when we select job instances and right-click "Delete". The practical use ...
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

Improve Performance of Aggregator stage with Decimal output

Aggegator is a typical standard stage to implement Sum or Maximum calculation.But Sum or Maximum value can be implemented by Transformer stage.However, the performance of Aggregator stage implementing Sum or Maximum value with Decimal output optio...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

InfoSphere DataStage File Connector stage

I've just opened File Connector stage (version 11.3.1.2) for the first time, only to find that the Help button is disabled.
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add a "Test Derivation" option for Transformer derivations

When coding Transformer derivations it would be very nice to have (similar to "Validate Derivation") a "Test Derivation" Option that would work like a "View Data" in e.g. a Connector Stage. When using this option, DataStage would ask for the value...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enabling Single Sign-On for IIS web clients (thin clients) using eTAI within WebSphere Application Server

Need formal support for IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) Enhanced Trust Association Interceptor (eTAI) as a web-SSO mechanism for IIS thin clients (web apps) proxied through ISAM WebSEAL. The eTAI works fine on IE but not on Firefox. It is proba...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage 11.3 the connection from WAS to Engine ASBAgent is not made right after restart

We just upgraded to 11.3.1.2. We shut down WAS and Engine tiers for backup nightly. After restart, our first web service call always fails. It appears the connection from WAS to Engine ASBAgent is not made right after restart. but only right after...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Active Directory Certified (Information Server)

make your product active directory certified in relation to the SQL userid assignment for the products database connection at the app server layer as opposed to current situation of only supporting SQL Server local userid's. Also against our secur...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Surrogate Key Reset after failure of parallel DataStage job as state file is left as Truncated.

If a job fails at the while the parallel engine transformer function NextSurrogateKey() is updating the key state file,it is possible that the state file will be left in a truncated state. To a later job, the TRUNCATED state file looks just a NEW ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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