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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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DataStage Jobs failure because of RCP Issue in BQ Connectors

During BQ ds job run, jobs are getting failed as RCP is enabled 1.RCP is enabled at every stage in a common/multi instance job. 2. There is no option to drop missing columns at BQ connector(Target table) and source data has extra columns which are...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Detailed Log Files

One of our customers wanted to be able to track which IP the transactions were made from the logs, but we found out that this was not available. This could be very useful. Because if a username is used by more than one user, it is not enough to se...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

BIGNUMERIC datatype decimal scale values are trimming to 9 in the BigQuery Connector Stage

BIGNUMERIC datatype decimal scale values are trimming to 9 in the BigQuery Connector. We have tried StringToDecimal function for string type decimal value, hardcoded decimal value with more than 9 scale and APT_DECIMAL_INTERM_SCALE with value 20 h...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

IIS IDR Integration via KAFKA

DataStage:Kafka Connector in Information Server 11.7 does not support the use of schema registry or Avro JSON serialisation/deserialisation. IIDR (CDC) for Kafka on the other hand, produces Avro JSON serialised records into topics as default. Usin...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

[SAP Pack] ABAP Extract Stage's non-default ftp port setup support request

hello I want to use ftp, the data transfer method of ABAP Extract Stage. There is no ability to specify ftp port. The use of the ftp default port 21/tcp shows up as a vulnerability in security audits, so a different port must be used. The ibm case...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support for DataStage in Git-integrated Projects

As of 4.8, DataStage is not supported in Default Git Integrated projects. A large Federal Customer requests the ability to leverage DataStage in Git-integrated projects. This is critical for the customer to adopt a consistent CI/CD framework acros...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 3 Submitted

Delta Files from Datastage

Currently Datastage does not supports delta files. Due to which it cannot integrate seamlessly integrate/leverage the functionality supported by potential downstreams of an ETL tool like Fabric Warehouse/Databricks. For Ex>> If datastage wou...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Need CI/CD and Version Control Tool (Git) Integration (MettleCI) option in CP4D.

We have been demonstrted Mettle CI solution for integration with GIT/Automatic testing/CI/CD for Datastage 11.7 and said it would be available for IBM Cloud pak Data as well in future releases of CP4D : We have below questions on this topic 1)when...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Integrate GitHub source control with Information Server DataStage and BigIntegrate

Need GitHub integrated with DataStage/BigIntegrate for version control and deployment
about 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists