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Search results: Information Server

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Include 'Hosts' assets in the 'Data Files' group in browse assets

This is configuration in 11.5/11.7 IGC Classic but not in 11.7 IGC New
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Do not create Exception Set and table if there are 0 rows going to Exception Stage

We are using the Exception Stage in our datastage jobs to capture rejected rows so we don't have bad data going into our data warehouse and to avoid our jobs from failing due to bad data. Using the exception stage instead of using a flat file allo...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

OVF installation media

Package Information Server installations as OVF files. Our I.T. team wants to deploy future version of DataStage in a VMWare environment. OVF format would facilitate that. Our work around is to perform a standard installation into each virtual mac...
about 6 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

add option for BigIntegrate Docker (bind more volume, specify storage driver)

With the deployment of BigIntegrate v11.7.0.1 in docker mode, we are face to a lake of capacity. We can't add other connector like oracle client, SAP, or db2 client. We don't want to use JDBC version of those connector. So we expect that in the ne...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 0 Planned for future release

DataStage - File Connector - Add support of DECIMAL type when reading/ writing PARQUET

Our team uses DataStage for most of the ETL jobs. We want to output the result into HDFS using Parquet format. However, DataStage currently has does not support DECIMAL type (will throw an Exception). This limit will cause all data which contains ...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

IBM to support SiteMinder on InformationServer

We have a requirement to implement Single Sign on for IBM Infosphere suite of products. IBM does not support Siteminder as a single sign on solution for IBM information server(IIS) . We opened a PMR with IBM and also discussed with IBM expertise u...
over 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft App-V for Information Server v11.5.x Client Tools

System: Information Server Client Tools Actor: All users needing tools to be deployed and centrally managed from a central source using Microsoft App-V. Description: The Department uses Microsoft App-V to virtualise software for central deployment...
over 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide SAP Server Pack for SAP Application as a SAP Add-On

We will require SAP Server Components need to be provided as SAP Add-on instead of transport protocol files.
over 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Maintaining connections with zOS DB2

This is really for DataStage but this interface prevents that selection. Various teams are struggling with maintaining connections with zOS DB2. The most pressing is when using the bulk loader option in the DB2 connector stage. The bulk loader bui...
over 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Download in a single PDF more than one Data Lineage report

Hello, We would like to be able to have in a single PDF file more than one Lineage Report. Currently we are able to run a Lineage Report and then save it in either PDF format or Excel. Our need is to be able to save in one PDF more than one Data L...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 10 Planned for future release