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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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Support of special characters in table and column names - Datastage and watsonx.data intelligence

We are using watsonx.data intelligence SaaS or watsonx.data intelligence on-prem Data Quality feature. In case we are working with database which has non-latin (e.g. Hungarian) special characters in table and column name the autogenerated Datastag...
about 1 hour ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

GIT for Datastage NG (based on review with customer)

Together with the customer we validated the initial version of Git for Datastage NG. Customer is using Datastage NG based on CPD 5.2.1 in production since y25. As the idea comprises a lot of aspects including diagrams, we created a document and ad...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

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

ELT on Spark (Cloudera + Databricks)

Numerous customers are using Talend Big Data (ETL tool converting design in Spark code to run on Hadoop clusters). Talend recently raised their price and many customers are evaluating competition. There are many opportunities for Datastage but any...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

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...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Looking for the "Use Connection String" option in Slowly_Changing_Dimension stage Surrogate Key.

Hello IBM Team, The Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) stage with Surrogate Key functionality currently lacks a "Use Connection String" option for configuring database connections. We are requesting the addition of a "Use Connection String" configura...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Make it easier to find out which lookup reference link has duplicates

If you have a flow with a lookupstage with several lookup links and one of those has duplicates on the key, then you get a warning message with which you can find out which stage caused the warning, but unfortunately not which link. We have flows ...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

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...
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

File Connector - Definition for Internal table Location

We need the table location to be optional when we define it as an internal table. When the location is not user-defined, the Datastage must define the create table command, but it does not need to define the location. This is important because the...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Improvements to the Transformer Component in CP4D:

- The Variable Stages: only one stage is visible at a time, and it is not possible to view the entry fields with its properties.- The output derivation: if the link is long, it is hard to know what fileds are to be derived, and whihc transfromatio...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration