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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace DataStage
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 29, 2016

Allow ODBC connector write to HIVE table /or File connector read HIVE table

1) ODBC connector for HIVe allows reading hive tables but doesn't work for writing hive table. It works - only very very slow and not acceptable for Big Data operation ( a few records in minutes).
1a. Additionally, If columns defined in UPPER case, when trying to write the table, during "create" step all column names are changed to low case automatically and then in subsequent step within the same stage(!) it errors out as trying to insert into columns with UPPER case and obviously cannot find it.
2) File connector allows only write HIVE table and not read.

So we need a single stage that will sufficiently do both operations