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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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Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Snowflake Connector lacking "OAuth" support.

IBM DataStage Snowflake Connector is lacking feature to support OAuth. From Security perspective and risk management department: DTCC as an organization objective all connections to snowflake is - "to leverage OAuth token feature" We need IBM to w...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 6 Not under consideration

Enhance IMAM S3 Connector to be compatible with a session token generated by AWS STS service

Upgrade to Amazon S3 connector of IMAM to be comptatible with a STS session token. As for now, the connector can only be set up using accessKey and secretKey and it does not allow to connect to AWS in case the company policy is to make use of a te...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Planned for future release

Rapid Job Update Tool to support Snowflake connector.

Walmart is upgrading to Snowflake , so they are trying to upgrade from Teradata to Snowflake. So Basically, what the ask now is we know there is a RJUT (Rapid Job Update tool) is available. Walmart is looking for some feature built by IBM using RJ...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Provision to allow the users to enter the partition and clustering keys for Partitioned tables in BQ and Apache Cassandra

Customer (and anyone using Google BigQuery) Google's BigQuery and Apache Cassandra support Partitioned tables . To retreive the data from these tables performantly , one needs to provide the Partition key and the Clustering Key. So, when the parti...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in Google Cloud Storage Connector Stage

Related to existing idea - "Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage"
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

DataStage Designer - Fields for Siebel Business Objects or Components returning wrong values

This issues has been experienced on both InfoSphere Information Server 11.5 and 11.7.1.1. After submitting an IBM PMR to try to resolve the issues the final response from IBM Support was: Our Engineering team reviewed the issue and have advised th...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

AWS IAM Role Compatibility with S3 Connections

Problem Statement/Pain Points: We work with a government agency who has specific security requirements and we are utilizing Cloud Pak for Data within their environment. They have a need for utilizing S3 Data Connections to resources in AWS GovClou...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

ODBC and JDBC support for CockroachDB

Getting the following error messages trying to connect to CockroachDB using the ODBC PostgreSQL Wire Protocol diriver or JDBC driver:
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

Full RFC 4180 support for File Connector / Flat File Stage

Full RFC 4180 support for File Connector / Flat File Stage enables the Stage to read well formatted flat files without any script support / preformating.
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists