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Search results: Connectivity

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PMR-TS001777097 (Enhancement to Response file generation in the existing SFDC plugin)

Enhancement to Response file generation in the existing SFDC plugin .The change we are looking1) When we load the data in to SFDC the stage should generate 2 types of files 1) request file and 2) response file. Currently only request file is getti...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Use decimal function for LIMITKEY value when a partition table is read by DB2 Connector stage of DataStage.

[System]We are planning to transfer data of an old database to a new one using DataStage jobs.Both of the databases are created on DB2 for z/OS.We have two environments. One is a production environment, the other is a rehearsal environment which i...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

can we make file connector to read file only in directory with name matched to the wildcard pattern

The File connector is unable to read expected partitions data : Expected to read data from all partitions excluding part_num=0, but it is reading data from part_num=1, part_num=10, part_num=11, part_num=12 and part_num=2 only. Expected Format as p...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce Connector doesn't support Bulk Load for Salesforce Objects where PK Chunking is not enabled or not supported

Salesforce Connector within DataStage currently has two options for retrieving data 1) Real-Time Query Mode2) Bulk Mode But the Bulk Mode functionality is currently limited only to Salesforce objects that support PK Chunking. Working with Salesfor...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Continue to Support Datastage DB2 Connector for DB2 for i v7.3+

Currently the InfoSphere Information Server 11.5 Datastage DB2 Connector doesn't support a supported version of DB2 for i. Also include support for Surrogate Key Generator Stage for DB2 supports DB2 for i v7.3+ Business Impact for IBM: If DB2 for...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Purge Functionality in Salesforce Connector to avoid records hitting recyclebin

Dear Team, I would like to get the following functionalities in Salesforce Connector 1. Capability to retrieve object structure from Salesforce connector2. Capability to call a purge API to hard delete the records from the object to avoid recycle ...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Support SAP ASE Unichar / Univarchar datatypes in Sybase EE Stage

Please add support to the DataStage Sybase EE Stage for the SAP ASE Unichar & Univarchar datatypes. These are not new datatypes and were introduced as far back as ASE 12 to support Unicode (UTF16) data in a Sybase ASE server configured with a ...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Unwanted consolidation/aggregation of XML data

I am using XML Output Stage in DataStage 11.3, to generate an XML chunk. Assume my input has rows like these (simplified):InvoiceNo SupplierVAT SupplierCountry SupplierName123 VAT1 NL Annette456 VAT1 NL Annette789 VAT1 NL AnnetteH147 VAT1 NL Annet...
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5.0.1 DATASTAGE - AMAZON S3 Stage enhancement

Request is for 2 folds all in the AMAZON S3 stage 1. Enable the stage to support proxy settings 2. Server side encryption does not allow Client's to put their server side encryption id as part of their key management system policy in their buckets
about 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Add Partition read to BigIntegrate ODBC stage

When reading from HIVE tables using ODBC stage, we should be able to read from multiple partitions at the same time. For ex: if the HIVE table has more than 1 data file (has 5 different part files), then when reading data from this HIVE table usin...
over 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration