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DataStage - File Connector - Add support of NULL type when reading PARQUET file

We use DataStage for most of the ETL jobs. We want to read PARQUET file (which contains nullable columns) and do further processing on it. But File Connector does not support NULL type when reading PARQUET file.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Fileconnector and Avro

File Connector to generate its own Avro schema, and at run time. Anything that moves us closer to that, and further away from a) hand coding Avro schemas b) physically copying them to the edge node, would probably be step in the right direction
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

DataStage server jobs are failing due to no ODBC connector support to load data into Snowflake database

Currently, we have several DataStage server jobs designed to solve a specific problem and running fine to extract data sourcing from flat files & SQL servers and targeting to Netezza database. Now we are in the process of migrating the on-prem...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Knox support in File Connector

Have the knox support in the file connector stage reading delimited file or orc file.
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Technical Specialist- Information Server

With the Amazon S3 stage, our client would like to include the date_created field for a list of files in Amazon S3. Currently this is missing. I would like to read the create date for a file using the DataStage S3 connector, but I do not see that ...
about 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Extending temp file creation in BQ to include microseconds

The file names are not having the full microseconds. it is stopping with only 3 milliseconds and all the files are getting created with 4 zeroes at the end. node 4 and node 21 tried to create the file with the same name bigQueryTempFile20210415133...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

File Connector - reject link not supported

Hi, We are using Parquet format files and there appears to be an issue with File Connector not supporting the Reject links for Parquet. This is a road blocker for our NextGen Migration as existing BDFS stage jobs will be replaced with File Connect...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

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

BQ connector (target) to use Gzip Compress option

To improve performance for BQ connector ( Target) . Google had recommended to Gzip the files while loading to GCS and then merge the data to BQ table .
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

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...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration