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Search results: DataStage

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DataStage S3 connector to have the ability to ingest fixed width files

At present the AWS S3 connector in DataStage is only able to import de-limited files. In order to ingest fixed width files a workaround has to be used to extract the data from S3 and place it on a file system first so that DataStage can import it....
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Have to flip back and forth between Flow Designer and the Desktop Client

We are wondering if there is a patch already for this or if we can request an enhancement for something we see when using Flow Designer. Because we are building jobs in flow designer and using the Hierarchical stage, which can only be used in Flow...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

FastTrack all mapping folder/project export to csv and/or export all Source field and Target field for all project/folder.

kevinyan (IBM) 28 Apr 2019 ‎10‎:‎00‎ ‎PM Hi Divyesh, As my local test and discussion with IBM internal development team, there is no feature to export all the mapping specifications for the specified project into CSV format, rather than isx ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Enable copying of links in the Designer

Currently links can not be copied standalone, you can copy a stage/activity and delete the stage and all links you don't want to achieve the result. Especially for Stages where you have no Mapping folder (i.e. Shared Container, Modify Stage) to ge...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Make a FastTrack a tool suitable for designing and documenting ETL mapping

The InfoSphere tool suite is missing a piece.It is a great tool to govern you data warehouse using IGC with the business glossary, data lineage viewer among the highlights and it is a great tool to create the ETL flows in. What about the inbetween...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration
1 MERGED

Use of HARMAN plug-in not accepted for security reasons

Merged
The DataStage developers of the customer HUK-COBURG use the Hierarchical Data Stage in their jobs, in which an assembly editor based on the Adobe Flash Player is used. Support for the Adobe Flash Player has been discontinued since December 31, 202...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

dsjob command provides -logpurging option.

When the customer runs many instances of a multi-instance job at the same time, the auto purging process sometimes removes wrong entries in the RT_STATUS file unexpectedly. This behavior causes a serious result, because dsjob with -jobinfo can not...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration
1 MERGED

rebuilding part of the DFD in Datastage

Merged
We started using new data flow designer as IBM suggested .If we donot use this it will impact the license cost and developers and also users will be impacted.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0

enabled "compileDSJob", "runDSJob" for DS-Developer-roles

"compileDSJob", "runDSJob" are currently enabled for DS-Admin-user-roles only, so this is working as designed for now. please enable APIs for DS-Developer-roles (like DS-Admin-roles)
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Developers need Administrator Privileges on Datastage to setup Bitbucket Access

We should have the capability for developers with their correct roles to be able to setup access to Bitbucket or GitHub. This creates an issue as we now have to give all developers elevated access to our development lanes which can cause issues wi...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists