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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Data & AI Roadmaps (http://ibm.biz/Data-and-AI-Roadmaps) - Use this site to view roadmaps for Data & AI products.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://hybridcloudunit-internal.ideas.aha.io/


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loading data with Sales Force Connector for parent child relationships

Hello,We want to use the standard relationship fonction existing in Salesforce between the Parent-Child object while loading the data through Datastage.In the child object, we can specify the External ID of the parent objet and Salesforce automati...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Use decimal function for LIMITKEY value when a partition table is read by DB2 Connector stage of DataStage.

[System]We are planning to transfer data of an old database to a new one using DataStage jobs.Both of the databases are created on DB2 for z/OS.We have two environments. One is a production environment, the other is a rehearsal environment which i...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

DataStage - File Connector - Add support of NULL type when reading PARQUET file

We use DataStage for most of the ETL jobs. We want to read PARQUET file (which contains nullable columns) and do further processing on it. But File Connector does not support NULL type when reading PARQUET file.
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Netezza Connector - Grooming Support

Add an Option to support the grooming a Netezza table directly from the connector after the transaction is successful completed.
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Support NTLM authentication for API calls using Hierarchial stage or Web services Client within DataStage

As part of our data acquisition we are acquiring data from MDS Microsoft API and it needs NTLM authentication to connect to the API before the data can be acquired using datastage
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

ETL Datastage - Lower number of connections open toward databases during a job execution

When executing a Datastage job, connections which are open toward the databases (Sybase in our case) are open during the complete execution time of a job even if all "actions" are done. This should be changed (to lower the activity on database sid...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Twitter Connector

Connector which allows to access twitter data/APIs
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 3 Future consideration

IBM InfoSphere Information Server Pack for SAP Applications add Delta Extract Stage for SAP CRM

Add Delta Extract Stage also for SAP CRM.
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

DataStage Hierarchical stage Rest add Google service account auth.

The Hierarchical stage provides many authentication options including OAuth bearer token. This is required for Google rest calls but expires and must be regenerated. Suggestion is to allow the Google service account json file to be added as an aut...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Fileconnector and Avro

File Connector to generate its own Avro schema, and at run time. Anything that moves us closer to that, and further away from a) hand coding Avro schemas b) physically copying them to the edge node, would probably be step in the right direction
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration