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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

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

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

Salesforce select only fields for the object. Do not automatically bring back all fields in the child relationships.

This is about the DataStage Salesforce Connector. When building the Salesforce Connector Stage by importing the objects fields from Salesforce using the "Browse Objects" function . A list of tables in Salesforce will be presented. One can click th...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Big Query connector with Reject link

We would like to take the advantage of having a reject link option on Big query connector. While loading data in to BQ table we see few records are dropping , to track those dropped records , having a reject link functionality will be handy to nar...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

BigQuery Connector

In BigQuery connector in Source and Target the Test connection , View data options will be helpful to check the connection while debugging the connectivity issues.also view data will help to understand how the data look in the table instead of log...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Provision to allow the users to enter the partition and clustering keys for Partitioned tables in BQ and Apache Cassandra

Customer (and anyone using Google BigQuery) Google's BigQuery and Apache Cassandra support Partitioned tables . To retreive the data from these tables performantly , one needs to provide the Partition key and the Clustering Key. So, when the parti...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Netezza Connector - Grooming Support

Add an Option to support the grooming a Netezza table directly from the connector after the transaction is successful completed.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration