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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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Certify Pack for SAP Applications for SAP S/4HANA 2025 (FPS01)

We are integrating IBM InfoSphere DataStage (11.7.0.2) with SAP S/4HANA 2025 FPS01 on-premise using the ABAP Extract Stage and Pack for SAP Applications 8.1. IBM Support (case TS022982575) confirmed that SAP S/4HANA 2025 is not yet certified with ...
5 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
about 1 year ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enable SQL optimization, also known as SQL pushback, for Cloudera connector

Enlarge the list of data sources that benefit from this performance improvement by adding another connector. All customers worldwide using Modeler on CP4D and Cloudera will benefit from this improvement.
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Analysis Decision Workspace: Interactive Comparison, Validation, and Reproducibility for IBM SPSS Statistics Results

I propose adding an Analysis Decision Workspace to IBM SPSS Statistics that would provide users with an interactive environment for comparing statistical analysis results, validating analytical decisions, and maintaining a clear reproducibility tr...
21 days ago in SPSS Statistics 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.
11 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

We need new Installer which can support installing IIS with Db2 v12.1 directly

We are building an IIS environment with IIS v11.7.1.6 and Db2 v12.1.5.I see that Db2 v12.1.5 is supported recently. InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.6 Service Pack 3 Announcement How to upgrade Db2 11.5 to version 12.1 for IBM InfoSphere Infor...
28 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

CSV and Excel compatible export and intelligent analysis function for Db2zAI

Db2zAI DCC provide training recommendations for distributed connection and thread control. However, we have to manually copy these numbers in to an excel so we can compare, review, analyze, approve and track the activities. The manual process is t...
4 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Validation of DB2 pre-requisites for DB2 AI for z/OS maintenance

When a DB2 AI for z/OS APAR requires APAR from DB2/zOS as pre-requisites, it is desirable to include in the DB2zAI hold data a job to verify if the DB2/zOS pre-requisites have been installed. Otherwise the DB2zAI software upgrade could be complete...
10 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

ODM 9.5 Integration with IIS 11.7.1.3

The current Infosphere datastage supports ODM 8.10 only. There is a dependency on Java JDK 9.5 for ODM 9.5 packages to be used. We wanted to see if there is a way to backport ODM 9.5 integration to DataStage on Java 8. This would allow us to conti...
3 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Implementation SPSS Modeler's new visualization feature "View Data" as a node.

SPSS Modeler stores the various operations in a stream, making it very easy to run the same operation over and over, or to run the same operation on different data. Because View Data is not implemented as a node, the configuration is not stored in...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release