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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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Snowflake Connector Bulk Unload

Hi, We are migrating our Teradata DB to Snowflake on Azure. We are migrating our datastage jobs accordingly. We need to unload large volume of data with Snowflake Connector, using Bulk unload, the same way we do bulk load (CREATE STAGE - COPY INTO...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Option to retain job log when deploying via MettleCI

MettleCI currently deletes the existing job prior to importing the updated version. A consequence is the full detailed job run log gets deleted. An option to be able to deploy via MettleCI without needing to deleting the assets will allow client t...
15 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Is there a reason why OSV hypervisor is not supported with DataStage 11.7.1?

We were informed by IBM support Engineers that OSV hypervisor does not support DataStage 11.7.1. We would like to know why this is not supported. Also, did IBM test this OSV hypervisor on DataStage 11.7.1. Can you please provide elaborated informa...
19 days ago in DataStage 1

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
10 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

DataStage connection to Amazon Web Services - Databricks

We have many clients using Databricks on AWS but currently only Azure Databricks is supported in DataStage.
13 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Datastage 11.7 - Azure_Storage_Connector - Support for Container-Level SAS Tokens(User Delegation SAS)

Please add support for connecting to Azure Blob Storage (with Azure_Storage_Connector) using a User Delegation SAS (container-level SAS token based on Microsoft Entra ID).Currently, this type of authentication is not supported — the connector requ...
27 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0

Improvements to the Transformer Component in CP4D:

- The Variable Stages: only one stage is visible at a time, and it is not possible to view the entry fields with its properties.- The output derivation: if the link is long, it is hard to know what fileds are to be derived, and whihc transfromatio...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration