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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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HA scripts with LSB compliant

We have a built a new HA cluster with redhat pacemaker and trying to create resources with HAScripts provided with the Datastage HAinstallation but the HAScript provided for the WAS & InfoSvrEngine start/stop requires more options such as stat...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

HASH function

Currently the HASH function is implemented as a "User Defined Function" within DataStage. This functionality was developed as-is so it's not working when trying to optimize the job with BalOpt. DataStage development team took the Hash code provi...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DSX file compilation and dsx export feature at the server level (linux os).

At GM we are in a process of implementing DevOps CI/CD pipeline. We have come up with Linux based Datastage auto deployment tool. We wanted to maintain individual DS object dsx file (only design without executable) in bitbucket and then tool to pi...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Need a DataStage super operator role with export permission

We have a requirement due to SOX auditing rules that developers can have read-only access to the DataStage jobs in production. However, we would still like the developers to be able to export the jobs so they can be moved to the non-prod environme...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

FastTrack all mapping folder/project export to csv and/or export all Source field and Target field for all project/folder.

kevinyan (IBM) 28 Apr 2019 ‎10‎:‎00‎ ‎PM Hi Divyesh, As my local test and discussion with IBM internal development team, there is no feature to export all the mapping specifications for the specified project into CSV format, rather than...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Snowflake JDBC Driver 3.7 update in Information server 11.5

We upgraded the Snowflake JDBC driver 3.7 in information server 11.5 but the drivers are not working due to incompatibility of Java 1.8 in Information Server 11.5. Please add the functionality in 11.5 to support Java 1.8 to install the JDBC driver...
about 5 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.
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Ldap users authentication to ODBC MongoDB drivers in DataStage

Hi, We're trying to work with DataStage and mongodb, Our need is to work with MongoDB with SSL and AD users. We understood that Those drivers supports only SSL for now. We need to enable the logon to MongoDB in DataStage with AD\Ldap users....
about 5 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...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

ability to log warnings having a connector with rejects link

Currently having a connector with a reject link one can only choose to Abort or ignore rejects. I need the option (out of the box) to log warnings. Rejects should be captured - that is why I like a rejects link. Sometimes I do not want to abort...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration