Known problems and workarounds for IBM InfoSphere DataStage Version 8.1
| Issue | Details |
| DataStage: Errors and warnings occur in installation log | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318266 |
| DataStage: Do not use double backslashes ( \\ ) or forward slashes ( // ), or other non-normalized forms in pathnames in the installer response file | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318836 |
| DataStage: Requested projects not created at installation | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21319920 |
| DataStage: missing license string error when upgrading from Version 8.0.1 to Version 8.1 | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21322526 |
| DataStage: Upgrade can fail to add new Checksum stage to project | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21321955 |
| DataStage: Failure updating stages when upgrading from Version 8.0.1 to Version 8.1 | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21321953 |
| DataStage: Projects that contain only executables cannot be upgraded from Version 7.5.3 to Version 8.1 | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21322988 |
| DataStage: Problems when upgrading an 7.5.3 ITAG server to version 8.1 | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21372903 |
| DataStage: Column names in Table Definition need to be 255 characters or less | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318278 |
| DataStage: Problems with 40 or more simultaneous users | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318249 |
| DataStage: Locking issue in certain multi-user scenarios | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318377 |
| DataStage: Problems running large parallel job on Windows | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318253 |
| DataStage: Parallel job fails when certain server job components are linked together | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318325 |
| WebSphere MQ stages in DataStage server jobs on HP-UX on PA-RISC fail to connect to the queue manager | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21385307 |
| DataStage: Problem with delimiters when using server shared container in parallel job | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21372864 |
| DataStage: DSSetServerParams requires additional argument | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318251 |
| DataStage: Column names with non-alphanumeric characters can cause runtime problems in parallel jobs | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318332 |
| DataStage: Designer palette faults | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318835 |
| DataStage: Director client disconnects | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21372885 |
| DataStage Director client: error when viewing job log | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318274 |
| DataStage: When you delete a job in the Director client, the job design is deleted | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21321961 |
| DataStage Administrator client: viewing or editing project properties causes warnings | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318250 |
| DataStage Administrator client: job log purge setting lost after upgrade | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318270 |
| DataStage: Oracle OCI stage requires 32-bit library | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21322995 |
| DataStage Version 7.5.3 clients fail to start | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318328 |
| DataStage Designer client: importing UniData file definitions | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21319527 |
| DataStage Designer client: UniData 6 stage is now deprecated | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21319525 |
| DataStage: Cannot delete shared table in Metadata Management tool | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318832 |
| DataStage: Parallel job CFF and mainframe job MFF stages cannot be imported via DSXImportService | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318284 |
| Import of large DataStage export files in xml format does not complete | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318277 |
| DataStage: Problems importing metadata by via bridges | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318367 |
| DataStage: non-numeric port number value given in ISHost argument to DSImportService command causes an error | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21323280 |
| DataStage: Documented syntax for generating XML reports is incorrect | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21323123 |
| DataStage: Job run reports generated by sequence jobs do not show the final error message | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21372981 |
| DataStage: Help text contains incorrect command syntax for the DSXImportService command | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21322550 |
| DataStage: problem re-importing parameter sets using the DSImportService command | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21372980 |
| DataStage: Table definitions imported using the DataStage Connector import wizard do not show referenced tables | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318831 |
| DataStage SQL Builder: Invalid join condition | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318330 |
| DataStage: Multi Job Compiler can seem to hang if a Mainframe Job is compiled, that has an invalid drive specified in its Code Generation Path property | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21319658 |
| DataStage: Compilation of a parallel job fails if the job contains a shared container that has an environment variable as one of the parameters | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21319656 |
| DataStage server jobs: Cannot set partitioning algorithm by using the job parameter | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318267 |
| DataStage: remote deployment re-enabled | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318389 |
| DataStage: dsrpc process has POSIX locale set after installation | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21319926 |
| DataStage on Japanese systems: Problem in some stage editors with certain combinations of half-width Katakana mixed with full-width Katakana characters | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318370 |
| DataStage: Restrictions using Wrapped stages on Windows server | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318379 |
| DataStage: Build (buildop) stage uses string internally, even when specifying ustring in schema | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318371 |
| DataStage: Jobs that contain SCD stages do not compile | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21318368 |
| DataStage: Potential problem exporting runtime object for wrapped stage using istool | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21331048 |
| Information Server Manager: problem exporting jobs that contain a wrapped stage | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21372882 |
| Information Server Manager: Cannot run job containing Wrapped stage after import | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2321&uid=swg21372907 |
