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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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Unable to call BigQuery stored procedure using BigQuery connector stage in DataStage 11.7

As part of the existing Teradata to BigQuery migration POC, we are planning to replace the Teradata Macros’s to Big Query Stored Procedures and call the stored procedures from the BigQuery connector stage in Datastage 11.7. But the issue is we are...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Delta Files from Datastage

Currently Datastage does not supports delta files. Due to which it cannot integrate seamlessly integrate/leverage the functionality supported by potential downstreams of an ETL tool like Fabric Warehouse/Databricks. For Ex>> If datastage wou...
7 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

MFA for Datastage Connections

We are undergoing a security assessment and per IA-2(1) for privileged access and IA-2(2) for non-privileged users (see below link and attachment for official documentation) we need to implement Multifactor Authentication for Privileged or Non-Pri...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Update iisenc / encrypt.sh output to have per-installation private secret

I was horrified to be told that IBM Support has the capability to decrypt "encrypted" password values in the ISX file we were asked to provide. This should be impossible in a secure system. Given that it is possible to move encrypted values betwee...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

When a DataStage job creates a dataset with a parameterized name, the dataset does not utilize the parameter value at runtime for naming.

When a dataset is created by a DataStage job, and the dataset's name is composed of a parameter, the dataset does not use the parameter's value at runtime to name it.
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Need CI/CD and Version Control Tool (Git) Integration (MettleCI) option in CP4D.

We have been demonstrted Mettle CI solution for integration with GIT/Automatic testing/CI/CD for Datastage 11.7 and said it would be available for IBM Cloud pak Data as well in future releases of CP4D : We have below questions on this topic 1)when...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Information Service Director Maintenance mode

I have multiple Information Server engine tiers. I have enabled load balancing from the ISD console to take advantage of the engines. I need a way to gracefully stop one engine for maintenance, such that the in-flight transaction is processed, and...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need support for Oracle Linux 8

MMC policy is to use Oracle Linux instead of RHEL.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

New Role in DataStage

To satisfy the segregation of duties risk requirement we need a new admin role with below functionality.Assign project roles to InfoSphere DataStage suite users in the InfoSphere DataStage Administrator client •Use the Administrator client to crea...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration