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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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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.

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DataStage

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Snowflake connector - Insert new rows only

The current Snowflake connector does not support inserting only new rows using a merge statement if there are only key columns and no attributes. For example, if you want to have every possible unique combination of 2 columns, there is currently n...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 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

DataStage/OEM Compatibility with Windows 2022

We use DataStage 11.7 version in windows 2016 as of now and we create runtime deployment DataStage job artifacts to run through OEM package. Now we are considering to upgrade our system with windows 2022. We need any DataStage version or it's OEM ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Under review

Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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

istool import - add mapping option for FastTrack assets

We would like to add the ability to the istool command to allow for the importing of fasttrack assets using a mapping file along with the isx file.
almost 6 years 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...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Report List of User on Web Administration Console

When we make a Report list of users on Administration Console >> Create Report. However when created, it cannot display results that match the Assigned User in a Roles. Filter doesn't works. The results displayed are all users in the user LD...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Enabling Single Sign-On for IIS web clients (thin clients) using eTAI within WebSphere Application Server

Need formal support for IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) Enhanced Trust Association Interceptor (eTAI) as a web-SSO mechanism for IIS thin clients (web apps) proxied through ISAM WebSEAL. The eTAI works fine on IE but not on Firefox. It is proba...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration