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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Generate controlled number of rowgroups in parquet file

While creating a parquet file, datastage doesn't allow the user/developer to control the number rowgroups to be created per file. We have received following feedback and suggestion from the PMR support - "The Parquet Parser / Builder implementati...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Unstructure Data Stage

While loading data from Datastage to excel using the Unstructure Data stage we want to control on the direction of the loaded data into the excel spreadsheet.
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Salesforce connectivity - Datastage 11.5 API 47

No description provided
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

DataDirect mysql driver not available for zLinux systems for Maria DB connectivity

The ODBC drivers for Maria DB connectors are not available for zLinux systems. By adding this feature all the users who are trying to connect to Maria DB connectors on Zlinux will be able to connect successfully as it will have the mysql drivers.
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Teradata Connector Enable Data Encryption

There are situations were the data connection between Datastage and Teradata need to be encrypted to transfer sensitive information. Currently the option exists in ODBC, but not in the Teradata Connector.
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5.0.1 DB2 Connector To Support External Tables

We currently execute many Netezza job using DataStage 11.5.0.1 on Red Hat 6.8. We have discovered that IBM will no longer support Netezza and is replacing it with a DB2 Warehouse IIAS. The 11.5.0.1 Netezza Stage supports external tables which has ...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Certification for Unidata 8.x and Information Server 11.7

Seeking certification for Information Server 11.7 running on Unidata 8.x Information Server 11.7 is certified for Unidata 7.0 and prior versions. Unidata 7.0 and prior versions are end of live. Epicor software is VAR for IBM and Rocket products. ...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Collibra Connection

Collibra are pretty much leading the way in the metadata management market and moving into the data catalog market. They house a huge amount of enterprise data assets that exist across some of our largest customers and targets. When we discuss WKC...
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Support Secure Gateway access to AWS RedShift from Watson Studio (WKC, Refinery)

With Multi Cloud environments with AWS, RedShift cluster is "VPC"ed and usually does not allow to public access. To make use of WKC (Metadata) /Refinery (Actual Data) capabilities, Secure Gateway support to RedShift Cluster which is "VPC"ed from I...
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce Connector doesn't support Bulk Load for Salesforce Objects where PK Chunking is not enabled or not supported

Salesforce Connector within DataStage currently has two options for retrieving data 1) Real-Time Query Mode2) Bulk Mode But the Bulk Mode functionality is currently limited only to Salesforce objects that support PK Chunking. Working with Salesfor...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists