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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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DataStage

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Datastage on Hadoop: RFE: localize .odbc.ini automatically

What we want to see is that the ODBC connector stage can localize .odbc.ini through YARN, just in the way like Kerberos credential cache or keytab in file connector. So after each update of the .odbc.ini file on edge node, no manual intervention i...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

DB2 z/OS data type TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE for Information Server DB2 Connector not supported

The specific DB2 z/OS data type "TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE" is not supported by Information Server/Datastage DB2 Connector.If one encounters this type, an unspecific error comes up. At least, the error should be more expressive and detailed. After a...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Partition Read is not working in 9.1.2 for DB2 11.1 (LUW)

Partition Read feature in DataStage DB2 Connector stage is not working in 9.1.2 when connected to DB2 11.1 (LUW) PMR Resolution: IIS 9.1.2 does not currently support "DB2 v11.1.0.0". Right now for IIS 9.1.2, DB2 support versions are DB2 9.5.x, 9.7...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Be able to use the jdbc datadirect driver for Hive to connect to systems in high availability

Be able to use the jdbc datadirect driver for Hive to connect to systems in high availability without having to use other programs
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

DataStage resource tracker should be off by default

By default, the resource_tracker process is on for Linux and AIX customers, however, in newer versions of the software it ends up generating large numbers of hung processes that don't go away even when you restart the DataStage engine (see referen...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

DFD engine as non-root user

As a financial company we have regulations around who get root access, it is strictly reserved only for server administration group personals. Our InformationServer/DataStage administration and support will not get any type of super user access (s...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Datastage 11.7.1 Snowflake Connector Upgrades Required

We have being trialling the Snowflake Connector and there's some functionality that has not yet been implemented into Snowflake Connector which greatly impacts it's performance. 1. The use TWT's - The lack of this functionality limits performance ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Salesforce Connector - Make PKChunking parameter False in Bulk mode

We need to have the pkChunking parameter to false to be able to put lot of data in Bulk mode (the real time mode is to slow)
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Enhance DataStage iLog connector to support the new Decision Engine in ODM

Currently the iLog connector in DataStage 8.5+ only supports the "classic engine" mode in Operational Decision Manager (ODM). A new architecture has been developed named "Decision Engine" which is faster and is the strategic path for the ODM produ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered