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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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IIS 11.5 DataStage support Date and Time data type for Parquet

We have been using IIS 11.5 with FP2 for couple years now for Hadoop data ingestion. New version of Parquet has provide date, time date type. Other tools and language has adopted this very quickly. Now we have received a lot of request to load Dat...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Requesting that IBM certify Datastage 11.5 on Power9 and AIX 7.1 TL4

All, We specifically purchased this hardware to host DataStage after reviewing the available documentation on the IBM website(See links below). We are unable to upgrade to 11.7 because we rely heavily on CDC in our processing as well as other comp...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Merge option in Snowflake connector as a load option to overcome the performance issue with insert and update.

We have already discussed the issue with IBM SF developer (Saravanan). Please provide an ETA asap. this is critical showstopper to use SF connector in Datastage.
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

PMR-TS001777097 (Enhancement to Response file generation in the existing SFDC plugin)

Enhancement to Response file generation in the existing SFDC plugin .The change we are looking1) When we load the data in to SFDC the stage should generate 2 types of files 1) request file and 2) response file. Currently only request file is getti...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

loading data with Sales Force Connector for parent child relationships

Hello,We want to use the standard relationship fonction existing in Salesforce between the Parent-Child object while loading the data through Datastage.In the child object, we can specify the External ID of the parent objet and Salesforce automati...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Use decimal function for LIMITKEY value when a partition table is read by DB2 Connector stage of DataStage.

[System]We are planning to transfer data of an old database to a new one using DataStage jobs.Both of the databases are created on DB2 for z/OS.We have two environments. One is a production environment, the other is a rehearsal environment which i...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

DA / Ctrl-Delete accelerator cannot be connected to a custom action to delete a scenario without going through the trashcan

The generated application studio should support the scenario permanent deletion functionality. The standard accelerator SHIFT + DELETE could be implemented too.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Functionality already exists

DA / Scenario manager : get closer to a standard file manager.

- The scenario should only be loaded on double-click; - multiple scenario should be selectable and then deletable simultaneously;- RW access should be implemented on scenarios / folders; - the trash bin should be managed by user and not globally;-...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Functionality already exists

DA / Have a scenario chooser widget that I can us in my ODM Applications

It could be similar to a standard file chooser on Windows orJFileChooser in Java.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Functionality already exists

Saving DOC DOM in an output stream

We are using DOC 3.8. The class IloDomModelManager provides an API to save the DOM in a file: void saveSnapshot(File file) throws IOException; Could we have a version of method "saveSnapshot" that takes as a parameter an output stream instead of a...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration