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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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Increase medium performance to upload data via FastMap

The medium performance to upload data via FastMap is unacceptable by the client. The uploading time of 3 records per second must be reduced to 6 records per second. We are referring to the simple upload, with just the standard FastMap checks, with...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Future consideration

Skip relationship with Esperanto terms

When using the "istool" command for glossary import, if in the .xml file that is imported there are relationships (Synonyms, Has A, Is A etc) between terms also present in the xml file and other terms that are not in the xml file nor on the target...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 6 Is a defect

Encryption for DataStage repository

Our Secuity department mandate us to encrypt all databases including the DataStage XMETA repository. When we do encrypt the DB2 database XMETA with the "DATA_ENCRYPT" option on the DB2 configuration, the WebSphere is not able to connect and I am n...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

sequence Contains Assets on Open IGC Data Integration 1.0

automatically for the order according to what I gave in the attachment based on Contains_Assets.jpg vs Contain_Assets_ETL.jpg is different
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Multiple transitions between a set of stages

Currently WF allows only 1 transition to be defined between 2 stages lets say from Stage A to Stage B. There is a need to allow 2 different actions (transitions) between these 2 stages i.e. from Stage A to Stage B. Based on the action selected, th...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

Suppress the "Operation category READ is not supported in state standby" warning message

Warning messages are appearing in all jobs and commands that use DataStage datasets after the Hadoop primary namenode server (xhadnamem1p) fails over to the secondary node (xhadnamem2p). In some cases the warnings are causing aborts due to the num...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Please consider to add functionality on “istool” command line for packaging management for IIS 11.3 version.

Currently, only it exists possibility to create, build and send Datastage packages (.pkg format), using the command line command “istool” The requirement is to have possibility to delete and update existing packages on the command line, using ...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

XML import via CSV connector

XML support via CVS connector
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Add import synonyms capability for Netezza connector in Infosphere Metadata Asset Manager

We cannot import synonyms in IMAM for Netezza connector where as synonyms can be imported for Oracle connector. We have raised a PMR for the issue(TS001641021 - Synonyms import issue in IMAM for Netezza database). Engineering team confirmed that t...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Please provide -authfile option for installing an Information Infosphere Server update package with encrypted password

Currently installUpdates requires wasadmin/isadmin password to be entered for installing an Information Infosphere Server update package (fix pack, patch, or update). Please provide authfile option with installUpdates so that wasadmin/isadmin encr...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration