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Search results: Connectivity

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DataStage Oracle/ODBC connector stage performance

We have IBM InfoSphere Platform and thousands of DataStage Jobs. Lot of these jobs use Oracle and ODBC connector Stage to connect to Oracle DBaaS database. These stages are running queries against system tables frequently and causing performance d...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

MFA Authentication to snowflake using OKTA

In our SNOWFLAKE Environment, Password login is disabled and authentication is through OKTA only for all users. When we are trying import a table from snowflake, it is asking for username and credentials. Since, users doesn't have credentials, the...
11 months ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

DataStage to support numeric Column Family (CF) in HBase

Currently, DataStage only supports alphabetic (letters) Column Family (CF) in HBase tables and it is a common practice to create numeric CF in HBase tables (e.g. the default CF is zero). Therefore, if CF has a numeric value DataStage cannot write ...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 4 Delivered

location property exposed in bigquery connector

Is it possibile to consider exposing the location property in the bigquery connector such that a default location can be forced CP4D side? Executing jobs that use the statements SELECT FROM EXTERNAL TABLE while the bigquery database is located in ...
9 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Snowflake Connector Error handling

1) We encountered an issue while using the insert or update option. The continue on error option does not work and the job fails if it encounters bad data. We opened a case with IBM. There is no reject capture mechanism. Workaround: Two step solut...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 6 Not under consideration

Enhancement request - IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Redshift Connector

Hi IBM team, Kindly find an enhancement request for - IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Redshift Connector Problem: Using IBM Cloud Pak for Data –Redshift Connector (with WRITE MODE=LAOD), empty source tables are not getting loaded to target AWS-Redshift ....
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Connectivity to Azure Table Storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Hi, I have a business requirement for us to be able to connect to Azure Table Storage to get the technical metadata from the tables which are stored there. Can you please make this connector become available in the next release. The connectors tha...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Standardize features across similar database connectors.

Certain features are not consistently available across similar connectors, leading to potential confusion for users. For instance, the 'PostgreSQL' connector supports the Data Quality output table, while the 'Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL' connector d...
12 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Support for Db2 Temporal Joins

Temporal table and Time Travel Queries are a powerful functionality which is not yet supported in Db2 although it has been introduced many years ago. The Join stage needs to be extended for Business-Time otions like "FOR BUSINESS_TIME FROM '1990-0...
almost 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Allow writing from the platform through a Hive connector

As we develop models on the cloud pak platform, we re implementing the following flow: - reading data tables on our on-premise datalake from a hive connector - training a ML model from a notebook environment - writing the output of models back to ...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review