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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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Request to update document the instruction to upload CSV files via Web browser on Data transform

Update the following document with the instruction how to upload CSV files via Web browser on Data transform. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQNUZ_2.5.0/cpd/access/data-sources.html
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Adding Debug capabilities to DataStage NextGen

Customers migrating from the legacy DataStage 11.x are missing the debug capabilities (setting breakpoints and running in debug mode) when moving to DataStage NextGen. DataStage developers are affected by the missing functionality.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Disable a stage/path on canvas

Be able to toggle stages and execution paths as on/off. Gray out the stage icon if it's been deactivated. During development and debugging you want to be able to test up to a certain point and but may not want to include every aspect. But if you d...
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Databricks connector

Adding a Databricks connector to DataStage could bring several benefits. Here are a few reasons why it could be a good idea: Enhanced Data Integration: A Databricks connector would allow seamless integration between DataStage and Databricks, enabl...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Detailed Log Files

One of our customers wanted to be able to track which IP the transactions were made from the logs, but we found out that this was not available. This could be very useful. Because if a username is used by more than one user, it is not enough to se...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Users can be select schema so as to choose the target tables of ETL connector stage easily.

Currently users should input the table's name so as to select the target table of ETL connector stage. It is very costly for users to input the full name of target tables without any guidelines such as schema information.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Implementation of Designtime Column Propagation to the DataStage Designer

Building new Jobs with DataStage ist implemented good, but amending these Jobs later can be a source of pain, especially if you have to add, delte or amend a column. It should be possible to add a new column or amend an existing one and propagate ...
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

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 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support for DataStage in Git-integrated Projects

As of 4.8, DataStage is not supported in Default Git Integrated projects. A large Federal Customer requests the ability to leverage DataStage in Git-integrated projects. This is critical for the customer to adopt a consistent CI/CD framework acros...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 3 Submitted

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...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Under review