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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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SLES 12 and InfoSphere Information Server V11.5

Hello!The compatibility report explains that Suse Linus Enterprise Server 12 isn't supported. But we plan to migrate to the new version of IIS V11.5 in few month. We want to use IIS V11.5 servers and engines on SLES 12.
about 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Data Direct ODBC/JDBC driver for redshift

DataStage 11.3.1.1 is trying to connect Amazon RedShift database. We need to have ODBC or JDBC driver installed in production environment. Our preference is to have IBM certified or supported ODBC Driver for linux. Please provide driver either cer...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Support InfoSphere DataStage 11.3 on Windows 10

Bank of Canada is planning to upgrade all Windows platform to Windows 10 by the end of year. The DataStage client tools currently are not supported on Windows 10. This limitation will have impact to the Windows upgrade project.
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

InfoSphere DataStage to support Oracle Advanced Security (OAS)

We have sensitive data in Oracle Database, and when running ETL, those data could be read to InfoSphere server, and there could be risk when read data from Oracle to InfoSphere server or write this kind of sensitive data to Oracle database. Oracle...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Implementation of Designtime Column Propagation to the DataStage Designer

Building new Jobs with DataStage ist implemented good, but amending these Jobs later can be a source of pain, especially if you have to add, delte or amend a column. It should be possible to add a new column or amend an existing one and propagate ...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Allow ODBC connector write to HIVE table /or File connector read HIVE table

1) ODBC connector for HIVe allows reading hive tables but doesn't work for writing hive table. It works - only very very slow and not acceptable for Big Data operation ( a few records in minutes). 1a. Additionally, If columns defined in UPPER case...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 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...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Oracle 12c Release 1 64 bit Client / Windows 2012R

InfoSphere Information Server on Windows2012R2 should work with Oracle 64bit client for client data sources. The 32bit Oracle client isn't supported by Oracle, somehow. Customer wants to use Windows 2012R2 because they use an Oracle RAC SUN solari...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

In COGNOS Analytics (TITAN) need to be able to set "Can run but not author" at the package and report levels.

In the new version of COGNOS Titan it appears authoring has been combined to a single row. Currently there is a function to restrict by Package what tools can be used. Also editing the system xml we can remove read access to traverse by default. T...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists