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Search results: Connectivity

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Salesforce select only fields for the object. Do not automatically bring back all fields in the child relationships.

This is about the DataStage Salesforce Connector. When building the Salesforce Connector Stage by importing the objects fields from Salesforce using the "Browse Objects" function . A list of tables in Salesforce will be presented. One can click th...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Greenplum connector in DataStage: CSV ipv TEXT bij external tables

When in a field (varchar/text) of the source query (postgres) a carriage return exists then we can not use the Greenplum connector of Datastage.
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 7 Delivered

Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Big Query connector with Reject link

We would like to take the advantage of having a reject link option on Big query connector. While loading data in to BQ table we see few records are dropping , to track those dropped records , having a reject link functionality will be handy to nar...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

BigQuery Connector

In BigQuery connector in Source and Target the Test connection , View data options will be helpful to check the connection while debugging the connectivity issues.also view data will help to understand how the data look in the table instead of log...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Provision to allow the users to enter the partition and clustering keys for Partitioned tables in BQ and Apache Cassandra

Customer (and anyone using Google BigQuery) Google's BigQuery and Apache Cassandra support Partitioned tables . To retreive the data from these tables performantly , one needs to provide the Partition key and the Clustering Key. So, when the parti...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

NZ Connector: Calculate Statistics on TWT Tables

Enhance the NZ Connector with an option to generate statistics on twt tables. Missing statistics on automatic generated TWT tables cause wait time for "Update than Insert" for up to 10 minutes, caused by reading the TWT table for insert the data...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Netezza Connector - Grooming Support

Add an Option to support the grooming a Netezza table directly from the connector after the transaction is successful completed.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Add SQLTables, SQLColumns, SQLStatistics, SQLSpecialColumns to ODBC API to connect MS Access ODBC

Issue with importing table definition from MS Access DB using Sequelink driver. Receiving unsupported functions on "SQLPrimaryKeys & SQLForeignKeys". Per technote we are trying to access Access DB using Sequelink tool DataStage ODBC drivers fo...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

BQ connector (Source ) to use Gzip Compress option

While reading from BQ table , In the background the connector should be using a Gzip compression method to compress the file and load to GCS, From GCS bucket the data should be read.This process will generate the most optimal performance while rea...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered