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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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RedHatEnterprise 7.2+ x86-64 tested and supported with IIS 11.3.1.2?

Hi,we need to know if it is possible to run IIS 11.3.1.2 on RedHat 7.2+, since we have stakeholders coming in on new servers built on that OS level. And OS team will not have the servers running on release 6 any longer. That means we might have to...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

provide Information Server 64 bit on windows

Large parts of Information Server are still 32 bits on windows server, including DataStage. (IIS is fully 64 bit on linux/Aix). Customer expectation is that this is 64 bits and are surprised otherwise nowadays.
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage - orchadminn cp command - copy the schema and contents with the target

orchadminn cp command doesn't copy the schema if the target file already exists.IHAC knows that it works fine if the target is deleted and orchadminn cp is executed.However, the man page is not clear, Copy the schema, contents and preserve-partiti...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Create SF_USE_LOCAL_TIMEZONE_DATEFIELD functionality for Timestamp fields

There seems to be an issue converting TimeStamp fields extracted from Salesforce to their correct timezone with the SF_USE_LOCAL_TIMEZONE_DATEFIELD setting that was suggested to me by IBM Support. It should be possible to have that same functional...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

WSDL 2.0 support enhancment

We would like Datastage to support WSDL 2.0 importing.
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support for Custom URL within File connector HDFS

We need to import data files and folders as well as the file structure to IGC from Atlas HDFS, which is not possible when using Custom url.
about 4 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration

IGI Service Center - Request approvation in external panel

Hi, is it possible to have request details and accept/refuse it in the IGI Service Center approval panel, without the mandatory step of access in every single request in order to check the details? It would improve the user experience.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Modification of SCD Stage to allow custom date specification

SCD stage inserts new rows (type 2) with the effective date derived from runtime. This is sufficient for updated rows. We would like to specify a different date for initial records.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

XML transformation

Add XSLT 3.0 support to Hierarchical Data component in DataStage product. Actually, this compenent supports only XSLT 1.0 specifications, which dates from 1999. Others ETL tools, support new XSLT specification using Java and Saxon librairies.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DS Git integration for proper segregation between DTAP environments (TS003975527)

Currently, while using the Git Integration from Datastage Flow Designer, it is easy for any user to connect to any GitLab repository it had access and upload jobs inside it. The issue comes when on a Production environment, for example, you can lo...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration