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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
5 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Schema Validation using Avro File Format under File Connector stage (AvroStreams)

Schema Validation exists with old avro1.x version but not with Avrostreams. Schema vadliation should be always available Avrostreams which avoid CLASSPATH setting.
about 1 month ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Add/enable connection from DataStage to confluent cloud topics having OAUTH support for schema registry.

We are trying to connect to confluent cloud topic from on-prem Datastage with kafka connector used in jobs.To connect for confluent cloud topic we select OAUTHBEARER property in kafka connector. According to our use case, we are facing issue while...
28 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable setting defaults to the Operations Console

The default view on the Operations Console is set to 3 days. Enabling the abilty to set the default to a user defined value would be ideal. In a citrix environment the web browser cookies are always refreshed between sessions, so the user preferen...
9 months ago in Information Server 0 Submitted

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack Delta Extract Stage. This is necessary to support the delta-extraction mode of CDS Views for extraction of data from SAP System for tables that does not support delta extraction via ODP - SAP o...
about 1 year ago in Information Server 0 Submitted

Challenges Integrating IdG Platform with InfoSphere: Metadata Structure Hurdles information server v11.7

The dependency that administration tasks have on the users dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin. It has not been possible to fully segregate them from our everyday administration users, and this dependency has led us to fail to meet information security s...
over 1 year ago in Information Server 0 Submitted

Dependency on dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin Users in Administration Tasks: Security Challenges. information server 11.7

The dependency that administration tasks have on the users dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin. It has not been possible to fully segregate them from our everyday administration users, and this dependency has led us to fail to meet information security s...
over 1 year ago in Information Server 0 Submitted

Importing asset data from a CSV in Information Server 11.7 to use in the Analyzer.

In version 11.7 of the product, it is not possible to directly upload an asset in CSV format; it must be done through a connector. This complicates conducting a pilot test or a demo within the application because if the client has not completed th...
over 1 year ago in Information Server 0 Submitted

Migration from DataStage 11.7 to Cloud Pak for Data 4.7 cannot be done directly.

to migrate to Cloud Pak for Data because the migration of jobs in DataStage is not transparent. is not directly
over 1 year ago in Information Server 0 Submitted