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Surrogate Key limit reached but job didn't abort

In the job , we are using one column with data type as 16-bit integer(SMALLINT) and the data range has exceeded in this month when we started from 31161 + 3883 and job has created same key for multiple records instead of failing and its ran succes...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Support Automatically Convert Numeric SQL Type(to Decimal or etc) for File Connector Stage to Parquet Format

Problem : We need to migrate data from SQL Server to Parquet Format. One of the data type in the SQL Server is Numeric type. We will run the migration job process using RCP. Workaround : 1. We need to change data type to another type, but we ar...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Infosphere DataStage Operations console - Authentication request

In current world, once you log into operations console it won't timeout until 12 hours by default. If you set LTPA timeout to your preferences, it will ask for the credentials after the timeout once & then, it never asks for credentials again....
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

ability to log warnings having a connector with rejects link

Currently having a connector with a reject link one can only choose to Abort or ignore rejects. I need the option (out of the box) to log warnings. Rejects should be captured - that is why I like a rejects link. Sometimes I do not want to abort ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration

how to reduce the number of generated yarn applications for hive connector stage

Several times of yarn applications is generated when using the hive connector stage in a DS job.For example, we have 6 hive connectors in one of our ds jobs.When the process node in default.apt is set to 2, about 18 yarn applications will be gener...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Users and groups to control file system issue

Customer have went with linux users and groups to Control file system level access and while it gives us what we want, it does cause some components of the engine to crash due to file permission issues where the dsadm group doesn't have privileges...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to schedule job running at higher granularity than a day

As a Job administrator, I would like to schedule jobs running more frequently within a day, maybe running every hour.Currently, Director allows a job to be scheduled to run twice a day. To allow the jobs to run every hour, we have to create 12 sch...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automate migration of DataStage job with Enterprise Data Warehouse as the target to Hadoop

Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) optimization has been observed as the most common use case for data lake initiatives. Off loading EDW data into Hadoop provides a highly cost-efficient environment with optimal performance, scalability and flexibili...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Import metadata from MySQL tables from any schema in a database using IS Connector Import Wizard

Our organization uses MySQL as a staging DBMS to store data tables that will be used in ETL jobs to feed the analysis environment.These tables are defined by procedures external to IS, usually with the IDR replication product.Development teams nee...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

request to build v11.5.0.PX OEM package for aix, linux (and sun)

request to build v11.5.0.PX OEM package for aix, linux (and sun)package should include native dbms related libraries and all connectivity related components for oracle (12), teradata (15), java 8support of hadoopNote: while only one Operating Syst...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration