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Search results: Information Server

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Make available a list of supported Source/Target Connections and the supported versions

Please provide a list off all the supported data sources and versions. I believe this is currently already provided for other products ( e.g. Cognos - the 'supported software - data sources ' tab on the Software Product Compatibility Report "https...
about 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Functionality already exists

Get a way to see all the scheduled IA DataRules

Currently using IGC query, we are able to get run history of scheduled IA jobs. We want to see list of all scheduled IA data rules in a project with date and timing, data rule name and frequent run detail of that schedule.
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 1 Not under consideration

Rule output for not applicable rows (not part of DRD scope) should not be treated as "met"

Currently N/A (filtered out) rows that are not in scope of a certain data rule (definition) display status as "met". We would like to be able to toggle whether to include or exclude N/A rows from rule results while creating the rule. So as an exam...
almost 4 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Querying the Information Analyser Data in Information Governance Catalog

Our customer wants to take an action according to the quality analysis results regularly. We prepare a report for them but we cannot add some specific properties like "Min - Max Values" and "Last Quality Date". They want to compare the quality cha...
about 4 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Planned for future release

RFE for Datastage with DB2 BLU/MPP

Client use DB2 BLU for online inquiry and Data warehouse to improve performance of Parts Information System. Their warehouse includes huge BLU table (table size is 30TB before compress) that is MPP configured.Clinent uses Datastage to load the hug...
over 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Extend ondwa to include a report of the tables included in a named data mart and the volume of data in each table in each IWA data mart.

In an environment with many data marts defined across multiple schema databases it becomes difficult to keep track of what tables are included in what marts and the volume of data in each. A report that could be produced from the IWA node using on...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Certify Information Analyser to profile Parquet files in an AWS S3 bucket

In order to provide effective Data Governance, we need the ability to run Column Analysis, Data Quality Analysis, and run Data Rules against Parquet files stored in Amazon S3 Buckets. These files form a significant portion of our data estate, and ...
over 4 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Encryption for DataStage repository

Our Secuity department mandate us to encrypt all databases including the DataStage XMETA repository. When we do encrypt the DB2 database XMETA with the "DATA_ENCRYPT" option on the DB2 configuration, the WebSphere is not able to connect and I am n...
about 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

sequence Contains Assets on Open IGC Data Integration 1.0

automatically for the order according to what I gave in the attachment based on Contains_Assets.jpg vs Contain_Assets_ETL.jpg is different
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Support for zookeeper for JDBC/HIVE connection within BigIntegrate

We are requesting that Big Integrate jobs using the JDBC/HIVE connector to use zookeeper in order to provide a load balancing for connections. This is a change to Data Direct driver and we have commitment from IBM and DD to make this change later ...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered