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Search results: Connectivity

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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

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

Greenplum connector in DataStage: CSV ipv TEXT bij external tables

When in a field (varchar/text) of the source query (postgres) a carriage return exists then we can not use the Greenplum connector of Datastage.
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 7 Delivered

NZ Connector: Calculate Statistics on TWT Tables

Enhance the NZ Connector with an option to generate statistics on twt tables. Missing statistics on automatic generated TWT tables cause wait time for "Update than Insert" for up to 10 minutes, caused by reading the TWT table for insert the data...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

BQ connector (Source ) to use Gzip Compress option

While reading from BQ table , In the background the connector should be using a Gzip compression method to compress the file and load to GCS, From GCS bucket the data should be read.This process will generate the most optimal performance while rea...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

BQ connector (target) to use Gzip Compress option

To improve performance for BQ connector ( Target) . Google had recommended to Gzip the files while loading to GCS and then merge the data to BQ table .
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

BQ read - Short term solution

We are encountering poor performance while reading from BQ table. Google engineering team had recommended to use Storage API instead of streamline API. IBM engineering team had identified a short term solution . While reading from BQ table , We wo...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

BQ connector to have replace table function

In BQ connector we need to replace table function. While running a DS job and the metadata is using RCP method , then we would not know the column names . In that case if we have replace functionality . It will completely drop the table and create...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Netezza Connector - TWT distribution key

NZ Connector should alter the session to perform hash join instead of merge join during load data when using a TWT table.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered