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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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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:


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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

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  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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Data Direct ODBC/JDBC driver for redshift

DataStage 11.3.1.1 is trying to connect Amazon RedShift database. We need to have ODBC or JDBC driver installed in production environment. Our preference is to have IBM certified or supported ODBC Driver for linux. Please provide driver either cer...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Is there a way to automate mapping of credentials in IIS Console?

We use LDAP user registry and map our unix password every time it is updated. Is there a way to automate the mapping of credentials in IIS Console? Most of our access issues come from unable to map the new unix password to the IIS Console.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Better and intuitive error messages

Better error message in Parallel jobs Error messages often doesn't give any values for developer e.g TR_lag_record,0: Fatal Error: ~APT_PMPlayer: terminating Player (node1, parallel APT_TransformOperatorImplV0S69_CopyOfJOB_G57_LINDORFF_LAAN_DAG_TR...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow ODBC connector write to HIVE table /or File connector read HIVE table

1) ODBC connector for HIVe allows reading hive tables but doesn't work for writing hive table. It works - only very very slow and not acceptable for Big Data operation ( a few records in minutes). 1a. Additionally, If columns defined in UPPER case...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Create patch or Test and Cerfity for DataStage 8.7 to support Teradata 15.0 and Teradata 15.10

Our company Uses DataStage v8.7, we are planning to upgrade our Teradata to version 15.0 or 15.10. So, want IBM to test and certify if Datastage V8.7 supports Teradata Version 15.0 and 15.10.
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DB stages should have options to disable "view data"

View Data options could be disabled for users. there should be an option for enabling /disabling view data based upon users/projects/jobs/environment variable level
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SAP Rapid Modeler to Work with IDA 9.1.2

This is not a new feature, this is supposed to work as is packaged. I need a fix pack for SAP v7.1 to work with IDA 9.1.2. I need to be able to use the SAP Rapid Modeler that comes bundled with IDA 9.1.2 in IIS v11.5. I cannot install the SAPRapid...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

urls are typically seen after a graphical wizard installation of Information Server do not appear to be available for a sile

urls are typically seen after a graphical wizard installation of Information Server do not appear to be available for a silent install in 11.5 version.
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Output errno to job log

DataStage job finished with a warning message "cannot open file &PH&" on the customer's system, so we investigated to the cause of the error, however we couldn't determine the root cause because of the lack of information. Errno helps us t...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

truncate fail for lines with "à" character

We like to truncate to 25 character dats in a field to avoid rejected line due to field size in the destination field. Truncate to 25 characters fails when a "à" character is in the filed : it truncate to 27 characters... Why is it trucate t...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration