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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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Connectivity

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Enable easy creation of Connections to Object Storage, Message Hub in Catalog

When I go to create a connection in the Catalog the system auto-discovers my Cloudant instance. That's great. I also have a Message Hub instance and an Object Store instance that I'm using as part of a Streaming Pipeline. These do *not* get discov...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Purge Functionality in Salesforce Connector to avoid records hitting recyclebin

Dear Team, I would like to get the following functionalities in Salesforce Connector 1. Capability to retrieve object structure from Salesforce connector2. Capability to call a purge API to hard delete the records from the object to avoid recycle ...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

DataStage (Unstructured Stage) Append Excel File with Data from a DB2 stage using RCP

This is a CRITICAL feature we need. It has stopped a project. This project is costing DST money and we are going to start looking at alternatives to replace DataStage as the solution!
almost 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Unwanted consolidation/aggregation of XML data

I am using XML Output Stage in DataStage 11.3, to generate an XML chunk. Assume my input has rows like these (simplified):InvoiceNo SupplierVAT SupplierCountry SupplierName123 VAT1 NL Annette456 VAT1 NL Annette789 VAT1 NL AnnetteH147 VAT1 NL Annet...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5.0.1 DATASTAGE - AMAZON S3 Stage enhancement

Request is for 2 folds all in the AMAZON S3 stage 1. Enable the stage to support proxy settings 2. Server side encryption does not allow Client's to put their server side encryption id as part of their key management system policy in their buckets
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Sybase Enterprise - Cannot read NVARCHAR datatype for sybase ASE

Sybase Enterprise - Cannot read NVARCHAR datatype as Sybase EE is the official stage for Sybase (ASE and IQ) it must have this posibility
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Secure Connection from Datastage 11.5.0.1 to Universe DB 11.2.5

Hi, In reference with PMR 85163,227,000 we are opening this Enhancement request to have the funtionality secure connection between Datastage 11.5.0.1 with Unvierse DB 11.2.5 while the data is in Transit
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Output rows to log/file not successfully read by Unstructure stage

Functionality to output rows that are not read succesfully from XLS into file or log
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

TD Connector functionality to use LDAP enabled functional ID to call stored procedures.

Request to introduce the functionality in the connector stages to use LDAP enabled IDs
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

read multiple table names in oracle partitioning mode in Oracle connector stage

In IS v9.1.2 DataStage is throwing an error while reading two physically partitioned tables from oracle database using Oracle connector stage when oracle partition mode is settled . This functionality is not available in oracle connector stage. Er...
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration