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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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Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

When using WHERE clause in Filter stage, user should set fields/columns manually but any assist functions such as recommended fields/columns listed automatically implemented.

In current ETL design, user should set fields/columns input manually when they want to set WHERE clause in Filter stage. One of our customer requests to function enhancement so that users can select listed fields/columns that CP4D tool listed. By ...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Questions related to what Linux utilities are being used by IIS

Our security scanners have noticed that multiple files from multiple servers do not have either a user or group ID, or even both. These files seem to be found on the Microservice Tier, as the example below: OS_team: -rw-r--r-- ug_kafka 9092 /v...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Possibility to search where within stages

I would like to be able to search where different assets/params/connections etc are used within stages in DS
9 months ago in DataStage 0

MettleCI compliance testing integration with Next-Gen DataStage

MettleCI compliance testing integration with Next-Gen DataStage
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

[Watson Pipeline] Link the script (any runtime) result to stage parameter directly

We would to have the possibility to execute runtime on the trigger job stage directly instead of creating a new node.
9 months ago in DataStage 0

Salesforce Connector to use latest version of Axis

We identified (In collaboration with IBM Support) that the SalesForce connector in Real Time mode experiences an OOM error when using third-party components and processing large records with big fields. In order to fix this issue Salesforce connec...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

IIS 11.7 Configure the Operations Console to use the ssh program rather than the rsh

Context: IIS on Hadoop is configured by using engine tier on edge node topology. When you run your job on this environment and if you want analyze the performance stats on each worker node then its not available because the communication protocol ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

We want to operate on ClickHouse DB and connection between DS 11.7.1.3

Our customer who is using Datastage 11.7.1.3 wants to write to ClickhouseDB from different sources and write to different sources from ClickhouseDB, but currently DS does not support it, if it is supported as soon as possible, ClickhouseDB is both...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

HOT BACKUP (online) for DataStage Enviroment

We are wondering if there is some solution to do HOT Backup of DataStage environment ( online without necessary to turn on server maintenance mode, turning off active services, etc.). Our platform currently running 24/7? Is there a possibility of ...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration