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Status Not under consideration
Workspace DataStage
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 11, 2019

Support Automatically Convert Numeric SQL Type(to Decimal or etc) for File Connector Stage to Parquet Format

Problem :

We need to migrate data from SQL Server to Parquet Format. One of the data type in the SQL Server is Numeric type.

We will run the migration job process using RCP. 

 

Workaround :

1.  We need to change data type to another type, but we are planning to use RCP(there is so many tables that we need to migrate) if we need to transform or modify the data type first it will takes times without RCP.

2. Using another supported format in File Connector stage like orc.

 

Needed by Date Nov 25, 2019
  • Guest
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    Oct 20, 2020

    Thank you for submitting this request for enhancement. We will be marking this as not under consideration, but would be happy to reassess if you provide additional information regarding the use case and proposed enhancement.

  • Guest
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    Nov 25, 2019

    Can you please describe in more detail what this request is about