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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Request for enhancement of DataStage AWS Redshift connector(S3)

Currently the Redshift connector, when using the “Load” option, writes data to objects in S3 corresponding to the number of partitions the job is running with. For high data volume jobs, this can lead to very large Avro files being written. Some o...
2 days ago in DataStage Submitted

CP4D Datastage, load several value sets at once like parametersets

We use value sets to adapt parametersets to a specific plant or product. But value sets are not loaded using cpdctl like parameter sets are. We can only load value set one by one using the json file that contains all parameter sets and value sets....
7 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Support Entra ID client secret credential (Service Principal) for Azure Blob Storage staging in Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse connector

Problem statement: The Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse connector in IBM DataStage SaaS supports a bulk write (Load) mode that requires Azure Blob Storage as a staging layer via COPY INTO. However, the Azure Blob Storage staging option within the ...
14 days ago in DataStage Submitted

InfoSphere DataStage Job Management REST API

This idea promotes and suggests the creation of a REST API for the Import and Export of InfoSphere DataStage jobs in several formats, including the XML format obtained from exporting a job via DataStage Designer or by using the dsexport client com...
about 1 month ago in DataStage Submitted

Enhancement Request – Support Modern Enterprise Authentication Methods (Idira/CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, and Other Modern Authentication Mechanisms) in IBM DataStage On-Premises

IBM Support Team, Based on UPS Information Security standards we submitting an enhancement request for the IBM DataStage On-Premises platform to better align with modern enterprise security standards and credential management requirements. Busines...
about 1 month ago in DataStage Submitted

can we create something that limits the number of jobs in a project within next gen Datastage ?

A per-project job limit gives admins governance and cost control over Next Gen DataStage environments.
2 months ago in DataStage Submitted

Redshift Connector –Support Target Table Default Values for Missing Columns in Redshift Load Write Method

We would like to request an enhancement to the IBM DataStage Redshift Connector to improve handling of target table columns that contain database-defined default values when using the Load write method. Currently, all target table columns must be ...
3 months ago in DataStage Submitted

Enable setting of key columns without UI

In target connectors you can choose "Generate SQL", when doing this for an Update or Delete statement it will only work if you are not using RCP, for currently you can only check key columns for design time columns. It would be cool if you could a...
3 months ago in DataStage Submitted

When upgrading Data Stage, from one version to another, the views and flows have to be recompiled. This is currently limited to the project owners. An enhancement request would be to allow those doing the upgrade to upgrade the views and flows as part of the upgrade

When upgrading Data Stage, from one version to another, the views and flows have to be recompiled. This is currently limited to the project owners. An enhancement request would be to allow those doing the upgrade to upgrade the views and flows as ...
4 months ago in DataStage Submitted

Add SQL pushdown support for DB2 for z/OS connector in DataStage NextGen

Flows using the db2zos connector compile and run purely as px-runtime OSH with no pushdown. ELT mode does not support db2zos, so no predicate or transformation is pushed into DB2 for z/OS. All data is extracted to the parallel engine before any fi...
4 months ago in DataStage Under review