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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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File Connector running on Windows does not support HDFS file formats supported under Linux

Running Data Engine on a Windows 64-bit environment and want to use File Connector to access AVRO files. The Linux version of the software supports this as of 11.5 FP1. If the data engine is installed on Windows, this functionality isn't availabil...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Designer Client crashes when attempting to find a stage type used in Jobs

The Designer Client crashes when we are attempting to query a specific stage used in the jobs and output in XML format
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Use of the same Oracle Database for differents instance of IIS.

The new product InfoSphere Gouvernance Catalog of the IIS 11.5.0 is creating default Oracle user and schema to collect information for the Dashbord. User and schema names are predifined and cannot be change according customers rules, and the main ...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

datastage : "Server side" Templates.

Extend the job template possibility: give the possibility to a company to define job templates for all the developers (it is only possible to create job templates at client level: it means that each developer have to define his templates)
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Purge Finished, Aborted or Crashed Multiple-Instance/ISD DataStage Jobs

Need to delete old Datastage job instances that are Finished, Aborted or Crashed in an automated way. It is the same procedure that we do manually in DataStage Director tool when we select job instances and right-click "Delete". The practical use ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

InfoSphere DataStage File Connector stage

I've just opened File Connector stage (version 11.3.1.2) for the first time, only to find that the Help button is disabled.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage 11.3 the connection from WAS to Engine ASBAgent is not made right after restart

We just upgraded to 11.3.1.2. We shut down WAS and Engine tiers for backup nightly. After restart, our first web service call always fails. It appears the connection from WAS to Engine ASBAgent is not made right after restart. but only right after...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Active Directory Certified (Information Server)

make your product active directory certified in relation to the SQL userid assignment for the products database connection at the app server layer as opposed to current situation of only supporting SQL Server local userid's. Also against our secur...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Specifying the Workload Management Queue in Job Activity stage

Currently when a sequence job is launched in a particular workload management queue, all jobs in the sequence job are submitted to this queue. We would like to have the possibility to specify the queue in the Job Activity stages within the sequenc...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly support for Sqlserver DataDirect Drivers in Datastage11.5

Linux ODBC driver for Information server 11.5 on Redhat Linux not supporting the ApplicationIntent=Readonly for SQLServer2014. Due to this issue we cannot able to re-route the connection to the secondary server which cause a huge overload on the p...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists