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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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DataStage

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Seperate user's access roles privilege for the Datastage Designer client and Director client

Privilege to assign user access roles in Administrator client separately for Datastage Designer client access and Datastage Director client access.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Online InfoSphere backup

Currently the backup requires the InfoSphere services to be shutdown, before the application and database backup can be taken. We would like to be able to create a full system online backup, while the InfoSphere services are still running.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

connector to Active MQ - AMQ

We would like to have a connector for JMS and/or Active MQ for DataStage. AMQ can support multiple APIs and protocols. Is it possible to build custom connector/logic to connect AMQ from Datastage ? https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Re-Start DataStage job (or sequence) with identical parameter settings

It would be a huge benefit to get an simple option to start a job or sequence with the identical parameter settings of the last run. Having Jobs with many parameters and parameter sets this takes time to do it manually and the parameters have to b...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

DataStage - GIT Integration for DevOps - Collaboration of CI/CD process

In DFD tool, we can push the changes to GIT repository. General case is, Developer 1 is working on a making changes to Data Stage job and it is under UAT in PRE Production server. Developer 2 is working on the same job for Enhancement work. It is ...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

IBM Flow designer 11.7.1 - GIT functionality to check-in to GIT repository

We are using IBM Flow designer 11.7.1. We have configured a connnection to a git server and tried pushing/checking in a job to git and have also checked the option to include the .isx files and dependent objects. The commit works. However, we can ...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support for Reject link on Kafka connector.

We have a requirement to publish message on a Kafka topic from a database and only publish them once. Problem is when using the Kafka connector as target it don't support a reject link. So how do I get a notice if message fails? Kafka Connector se...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Relocate the BQ connector connection information from bottom of log to top of log

Currently, when using the BQ connector in DataStage On-Prem, the connection information used to connect to the GOOGLE BQ environment, including the transaction ID is placed in the log at the end of the job process. It would be more helpful to have...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere datastage connecting to SCALITY - AWS S3 compatible storage

Hello Team, As per our client requirement, We need to establish the connectivity to SCALITY (AWS S3 compatible storage) from datastage 11.7.1 / 11.7.1.3 to place all our archival files into cloud storage. For that POC, we used S3 connector stage &...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to be able to import common Cobol Copy book format

System: BigIntegrateActor: User needing enhancement to existing feature Nationwide is moving processing from mainframe to hdfs for analytics. There are hundreds of COBOL copybooks describing the metadata of the sources and targets, and there is mu...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration