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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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Azure connector with SAS token

A shared access signature (SAS) provides a way to grant limited access to objects in the azure storage account to other clients, without exposing the account key.SAS keys are standard practice and with IS v.11.7 not being possible to use it, the i...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

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.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

LZ4 DB2 Compression Option - DB2 Connector Stage

As we've been migrating from Netezza to DB2 (with the support of IBM) - It's been noticed (by IBM) that the LZ4 Compression Option is not available in the DB2 Connector. Tests performed via the DB2 Command Line (on the Datastage server) show signi...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Salesforce Connector - Support for Bulk API on Queries

Currently the InfoSphere Information Server Pack for Salesforce.com only supports the Real Time API for querying data. Please can support be introduced for the Bulk API to improve the performance of large data extracts.
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Access AWS Redshift via VPN

Currently WatsonStuidio has to access AWS Redshift via internet (public network). Requirement is to make this communication secured ( by VPN for example)
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 Functionality already exists

Connectivity for Google Big Query

Cardinal Health is trying to move all data warehouse to Big Query. Teradata is in content state. So, it is very important for Infosphere datastage (11.7.0.2) to connect to Big Query. I guess IBM is releasing Big Query connector as part of IIS11.7....
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

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

Add Delta Extract Stage also for SAP CRM.
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

information server sap pack - need encryption with idoc stage

In the Information Server pack for sap, the abap extract stage has an SNC capability-to encrypt data. Need the same ability with the idoc extract and idoc load stages.
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Spaces in Column Name - unstructured stage or any Stage

Our team uses dataStage unstructured Stage for our integration nd ETL. However, we have Column names that have spaces, and unstructured Stage currently has limit on Column names not to have spaces. This limit should be extended and spaces should b...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to use Surrogate Key Generator in DataStage for Netezza DBMS

We are trying to use the balanced optimizer feature in DataStage 9.1 to rewrite the ETL logic in SQL that runs on the Netezza appliance instead of the DataStage server. We are looking for a way to generate the surrogate keys that works in DataStag...
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists