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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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Pipelines in Next Gen DataStage requires compilation in a protected environment ( Production environment )

Next Gen DataStage: At present, pipelines require compilation in a protected environment (Production). This process updates the last modified date on the log, which raises concerns about tracking changes and identifying what modifications were int...
29 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 5 Needs more information

Bidirectional SharePoint Connector for DataStage in IBM Cloud Pak for Data

This proposal aims to develop a native bidirectional connector between Microsoft SharePoint and DataStage within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.The connector should allow users to extract and send data (read and write operations) from and to SharePoint li...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Having more parameters in API calls

It would be beneficial to be able to pass more parameters during an API call (server/execute, for example). Currently, we can use an overrides file to modify a DBalias or the path to an XF file, for instance, in the case of a data extraction reque...
17 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

improvement on guaranteed pool type for GPU resources

In our CMCC HPC data center using LSF scheduler as the batch queueing system, we configured different guaranteed pools in order to handle different needs of the users using the Service Class system.The guaranteed pools implemented use both hosts a...
22 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Under review

LSF support for Job isolation using Containers(Docker) for Windows Platform

LSF support for Job isolation using Containers(Docker) for Windows Platform would be beneficial for teams that use Windows along with Linux for their development. Today such support exists for x86_64 but not for Windows.
23 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 2 Needs more information

LSF and GitHub Actions Integration

Native support in LSF for GitHub Actions is useful for teams working on implementing CI/CD.
23 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 3 Needs more information

Snowflake Connector Bulk Unload

Hi, We are migrating our Teradata DB to Snowflake on Azure. We are migrating our datastage jobs accordingly. We need to unload large volume of data with Snowflake Connector, using Bulk unload, the same way we do bulk load (CREATE STAGE - COPY INTO...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review