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Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Share WKC Metadata by column with DataStage

(I'll post a second Idea with Watson Studio also) When Data Assets have been documented/Business Metadata has been added, like Description, Business Term and so, this is a great value for Data Engineers. They need this information to build their d...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IBM DataStage Flow Designer REST API - Multiple compile jobs feature

We are looking for a REST API call that perform multiple compile jobs feature (the same feature available into Datastage Designer Client).In the doc (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.7.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.ds.fd.doc/topics/...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Data Stage v11.5 - View Data

Please be advice that I am not always on bank site therefore sometimes it will take me few days to reply your emails. we have migrate our data stage from version 8.5 to 11.5. due to the reason that 11.5 dose not supported any more with OCI stage (...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

provide Information Server 64 bit on windows

Large parts of Information Server are still 32 bits on windows server, including DataStage. (IIS is fully 64 bit on linux/Aix). Customer expectation is that this is 64 bits and are surprised otherwise nowadays.
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support for Custom Transformer (Parallel) Routines in DFD

DataStage Flow Designer in 11.7 does not support custom parallel transformer routines. When attempting to compile a job that uses a custom transformer routine from the DataStage Flow Designer interface, compilation fails. This results in a hard de...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Performance Enhancements to the DataStage Siebel BCPX Component

System: DataStage Siebel BCPX Component Actor: Users requiring vastly improved performance in retrieving data from Siebel tables. DataStage will be used to extract data, components and relationships using the DataStage Siebel BCPX Component. Descr...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow additional Special Characters for Data Stage Passwords

We own the Data Stage tool, are a heavy iSeries shop, and we use Active Directory where possible for authentication to reduce the number of user ID's and passwords our folks have to remember. We have been trying to enhance the security on all of o...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Job Activity by compute node

Problem: How to determine which job caused high CPU usage on a specific compute node. Workaround: Using the IIS console 'Activity > Resources' narrow down the window of the event that occurred on the specific compute node. Parse the 'dslogger' ...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration