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Search results: DataStage

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Delta Files from Datastage

Currently Datastage does not supports delta files. Due to which it cannot integrate seamlessly integrate/leverage the functionality supported by potential downstreams of an ETL tool like Fabric Warehouse/Databricks. For Ex>> If datastage wou...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Add Table Action Truncate for BigQuery Connector

On CP4D DataStage NextGen the table actions available for BigQuery connector currently are Append and Replace. According official docs: Method Description Append Append creates the table if the table doesn’t exist. If the table already exists, no ...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review
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DFD should provide message handler feature.

Merged
When customer compared two tables by Diff Stage, a warning messages were output for each difference. If there are too many differences in comparing two tables, many warning message would also be output. (ex : If there are differences in 100,000 ro...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Ability to expand columns in UI screens

Allow for custom viewing of data presented. Every table that is shown within the ui, service not exclusive
10 months ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

datatype uuid in Datastage Greenplum Connector

The database of my source table is Greenplum. The datatype of a field is UUID but this doesn't exists in Datastage. When I import the table definitions of this table then then the SQL type is -11.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Users can be select schema so as to choose the target tables of ETL connector stage easily.

Currently users should input the table's name so as to select the target table of ETL connector stage. It is very costly for users to input the full name of target tables without any guidelines such as schema information.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Adding feature for more frequent commits when using DB2 connector

When loading big amount of data into DB2 for Warehousing, we are exceeding DB2 limitation 300GB which means that we need to load the data with more than just one commit. However when using external tables in DataStage, DB2 connector ingores the co...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Partitioned reads from Google BigQuery should permit selection of column used to generate the partition query

BigQuery database supports partitioning of tables like range partitioning and time partitioning. If the table is already partitioned on the database side, then that particular column will be used to create the partition queries: https://cloud.goog...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists