What's new and changed in DataStage

DataStage updates can include new features and fixes. Releases are listed in reverse chronological order so that the latest release is at the beginning of the topic.

You can see a list of the new features for the platform and all of the services at What's new in IBM Software Hub.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.2.0

A new version of DataStage was released in June 2025.

This release includes the following changes:

New features
This release of DataStage includes the following features:
DataStage is now available on Power hardware

You can now move and transform data between operational, transactional and analytical target systems using DataStage for the Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform on Power (ppc64le) hardware.

Access more data with a new connector
Updates
The following updates were introduced in this release:
  • You can now run Orchestration Pipelines flows in the optimized pipeline runner mode through the user interface.
  • You can now import column definitions from XML schemas in the Input stage.
  • For parameter sets, you can now view, add and edit the help text in canvas.
  • In runtime NLS settings, system now displays the actual default values that the runtime is using.
  • While using advanced import options in your flow, you can now migrate STPPX Teradata plugin to stored procedure stage.
  • In Transformer stage, you can now locate the source of an issue by viewing and filtering warnings and error messages in the main transformer screen.
  • You can now filter columns in the drop-down list, when assigning a Key expression column in the Lookup stage.
Customer-reported issues fixed in this release
For a list of customer-reported issues that were fixed in this release, see the Fix List for IBM Cloud Pak® for Data on the IBM Support website.