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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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IIS IDR Integration via KAFKA

DataStage:Kafka Connector in Information Server 11.7 does not support the use of schema registry or Avro JSON serialisation/deserialisation. IIDR (CDC) for Kafka on the other hand, produces Avro JSON serialised records into topics as default. Usin...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow APT_EXECUTION_MODE = "One process" for production environments

In our tests we found for small PX jobs the execution is sped up by almost 30% if we set APT_EXECUTION_MODE = One process. Since we have 10000 of such small job invocations in aggregate this saves a lot of time and resources. But according to IBM ...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Integrate GitHub source control with Information Server DataStage and BigIntegrate

Need GitHub integrated with DataStage/BigIntegrate for version control and deployment
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

DataStage (IIS) kafka connector to connect to RBAC enabled Kafka cluster

BOA has a huge Kafka cluster and as per GIS ( Global Information Security), all new platform need to have RBAC enabled and this being the case, we would want to connect DataStage (IIS) using Kafka connector to connect to the Kafka cluster ( with R...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

IIS Microservices tier, Client certificate support for 4096-bit certificates

There is a requirement to update All our certificates to 4096-bit, as mandated by The company central PKI team. It looks like The Datastage services (WebSphere) tier can support 4096-bit, the IIS certificate for the server that hosts the Microserv...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Support for Integration of Iceberg Tables with Datastage Generic S3 Connector

The S3 connector in it's current shape & form does not support CRUD operations on S3 table bucket objects. We're current doing Data warehousing in Redshift instead of a Data lake in S3 as a workaround. Similar to the recent enhancement in Reds...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Require datastage job interim run status in cpdctl dsjob jobinfo command output as same is available in classic datastage dsjob jobinfo option

Require datastage job interim run status in cpdctl dsjob jobinfo command output as same is available in classic datastage dsjob jobinfo option This option is used to get the datastage job interim status which is useful when we are trying to captur...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Integration of DataStage parameters and parameter sets in Pipelines

Parameters and parameter sets in Pipelines are absolutely necessary for designing dynamic data integrations with DataStage.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack Delta Extract Stage.This is necessary to support the delta-extraction mode of CDS Views for extraction of data from SAP System for tables that does not support delta extraction via ODP - SAP or...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Missing Error Message, when no default runtime is present

We now had two times the problem, that we didn't get a proper error message, if no default runtime on a project was set. We would like to have a clear error message "no default runtime set" to not waste days of searching and comunicating with the ...
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted