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Search results: DataStage

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Setup for DR/Resilience, and dependency between services

The HAScripts ( InfoSvrServices and InfoSvrEngine) do not cover all the processes now required for a full DataStage installation. Some of the processes are set up as services on install e.g in /etc/systemd/system I can see DFDServer InfoSrvKafka I...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

Request to easily integrate custom scripts into the managed, SaaS DataStage Runtime

Our company is using Cloud Pak for Data as a managed service, which means we don't have direct access to the OpenShift platform or any of the pods or servers that run the Cloud Pak services, like the DataStage server. Occasionally with on-prem Dat...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

RedHatEnterprise 7.2+ x86-64 tested and supported with IIS 11.3.1.2?

Hi,we need to know if it is possible to run IIS 11.3.1.2 on RedHat 7.2+, since we have stakeholders coming in on new servers built on that OS level. And OS team will not have the servers running on release 6 any longer. That means we might have to...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage - orchadminn cp command - copy the schema and contents with the target

orchadminn cp command doesn't copy the schema if the target file already exists.IHAC knows that it works fine if the target is deleted and orchadminn cp is executed.However, the man page is not clear, Copy the schema, contents and preserve-partiti...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Data flow cycle" in Parallel Jobs

Currently "Data flow cycle" are not allowed in DataStage PX as described in the error message IIS-DSEE-TFSR-00035. This maybe is correct for most cases to prevent wrong design, but it would be very usefull when working with parent-child hierarchie...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make a FastTrack a tool suitable for designing and documenting ETL mapping

The InfoSphere tool suite is missing a piece.It is a great tool to govern you data warehouse using IGC with the business glossary, data lineage viewer among the highlights and it is a great tool to create the ETL flows in. What about the inbetween...
almost 7 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

datastage : "Server side" Templates.

Extend the job template possibility: give the possibility to a company to define job templates for all the developers (it is only possible to create job templates at client level: it means that each developer have to define his templates)
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration