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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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DataStage

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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

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

Improve Performance of Aggregator stage with Decimal output

Aggegator is a typical standard stage to implement Sum or Maximum calculation.But Sum or Maximum value can be implemented by Transformer stage.However, the performance of Aggregator stage implementing Sum or Maximum value with Decimal output optio...
over 8 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

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

IN and NOT IN in transformer

In parallel transformer(Datastage) IN and NOT IN are not supported,it is being implemented by no of OR and/or OR and NOT operator. Also if any dynamic conditions need to be provided from a single parameter it can not be possible.So IN and NOT IN n...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Productize the grid tool kit with in InfoSphere information Server

Productize the grid tool kit with in InfoSphere information Server Basically this request should go with IIS -General (entire Suite) .
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