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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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Make encrypted connection to access server with chcclp without reading tls.properties

We have an environment where encrypted communication is mandatory. When users want to execute chcclp scripts on the access server, they need to read the tls.properties file of the access server to find the location of the trust store. But in the t...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

File Encryption

We have a requirement to encrypt the file after extracting the data and push it to file transfer.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Datastage job migrated from V11.5 to V11.7 and use the Azure File System for storage account

We have migrated our jobs from V11.5 to V11.7 environment and uses soft link to Azure file system (storage account) for users input/output files. users are not allowed to drop files on server local system due to Azure server restriction on our env...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 3 Is a defect

Add search capability for stages on the designer canvas

If you have very large sequences, it can get difficult to find the job that you need to change as you need to scroll through the whole sequence. It would be very handy to be able to search on the designer canvas based on different criteria (stage ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Enable the setting of stage parameter defaults on project or server level

It would be nice, if it would be possible to set the default values of stage Parameters on project or server level. Some stage parameter defaults like SORT Stage: Stable sort=TRUE or AGGREGATOR Stage:Method=Hash are rarely used and in ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Support for SAP SRM connection via SNC

In Information Server 11.7 it is possible to connect to SAP S4/Hana ERP via APAB and BAPI connector with SNC. Please support this functionality with SQP SRM as well.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

upgrade the Bulk Load stage in order to use TLS 1.2 ( server jobs )

I manage a DWH environment on which about 1000 server jobs are run every day that perform a data load using the MS Sql Server Bulk Load Datastage objects ( Datastage version 11.7 ). Those Datastage objects have been developed to use an embedded co...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make it more difficult to accidentally close windows in DataStage

When working in (for example) a Transformer, if you accidentally click outside of the pop-up window, the window will close like hitting the cancel button and all the work you'd done so far is gone. This can be extremely frustrating. On a similar n...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

XMETA SQL Query via Connector

My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach. Our prop...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration