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IGC Collection Export & Import Option in 11.7

Currently we have no feature to do Export / Import Collection Assets from IGC - Governance(11.5) from one environment to another. Due to this, we used to create collection assets while Synchronizing Dev with PROD environment. As this is a manual p...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 2 Not under consideration

Bulk import of lineage filters (.WBF files)

"Import a lineage filter" function under Lineage Management in the admin console does not allow the selection of more than one WBF file for upload. In scenarios where a multitude of filters need to be imported, the current functionality allows for...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

Possibility of integrating multiple GitHub repositories with DataStage Flow Designer v11.7.x in the same InfoSphere Information server environment

Hi IBM Support, We reported below issue to IBM PMR Support via TS004318080 and the PMR support team suggested to raise an enhancement request. Details below : We have recently started using InfoSphere DataStage 11.7.1.1 platform and we have succes...
about 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

IMAM XSD Import from Engine Tier

InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM) allows you to import .xsd files to get metadata about respective .xml data files. However the way IMAM currently works is that the .xsd file you want to import can only be on the client from which the IMAM ...
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhanecement request to have file connector accept a list of hosts, and not just a single host name

Client uses orc and Avro HDFS formats, which in turn use File Connector stage instead of Big Data File stage. The file connector leverages WebHDFS and has a “host” property that must be explicitlyset to point to an active name node, in order f...
about 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

see information asset assignment trackable in workflow

According to guidance from Case TS001770322, assigning an information resource asset to an already published term does not initiate the workflow process.We need ALL change made in one term to start the workflow process as this results in a data go...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release

Ability to encrypt password when applying Infosphere Information Server patches. Authfile or inline with silent patch command

When applying updates (patches, fixes, etc.) silently, to Infosphere Information Server (/opt/IBM/InformationServer/Updates/bin/installUpdates), there is no way to script the installation of one or multiple patches without exposing credentials in ...
over 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Support Secure Impersonation for DataStage Big Integrate JDBC Hive connection

We are using the JAAS configuration file (JDBCDriverLogin.conf) to implement the Kerberos authentication mechanism. In our original beta testing with PX on Hadoop , we found that DataStage assumed that the Hive SPN and cache would be used for auth...
almost 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Bundle an ODBC driver for Microsoft Access with Information Server

Information Server does not include an ODBC driver for Microsoft Access. There are several problems with using the Microsoft one on windows and there is no driver available on linux.
about 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Read-Only user Role for Infosphere Datastage

We have a requirement to have a read-only user created to login to on IBM Infosphere datastage director client and only be able to view the logs and see the status of the ETL run.Among the current roles the datastage and quality stage operator is ...
over 9 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration