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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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Request to easily integrate custom scripts into the managed, SaaS DataStage Runtime

Our company is using Cloud Pak for Data as a managed service, which means we don't have direct access to the OpenShift platform or any of the pods or servers that run the Cloud Pak services, like the DataStage server. Occasionally with on-prem Dat...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Enable Custom SQL for AWS Redshift connector

Problem statement: For all our ETL transformations across NYL, we use custom SQL to extract the data. Workaround in POC: We are using JDBC connector to read data from Redshift Database Benefits/values: Using native redshift connector wi...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 3

Please unify the TLS version when creating a JDBC connection to the DB.

The version of TLS allowed when creating a connection in the control plane of CPD and when creating a connection in Flow Designer is different. * Customers who have problems this time are using postgreSQL. Connection in CPD control plane: TLS ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Add a Merge Key Columns option to the Full Outer Join

When doing a Full Outer Join in the Join Stage, you will receive two Sets of Key Columns in the Output named leftRec_Keycolumnname and rightRec_Keycolumnname, for which you then have to do something like NullToValue(leftRec_Keycolumnname,rightRec_...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Log specifics of 'missing engine OS privileges'

As per TS004304542, we get errors like the above, but there is nothing to indicate precisely which permission is missing. This makes it hard to track down issues.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add a bulk edit option for link sorting/partitioning

When sorting in the sort stage you edit the options of serveral keys together (i call this bulk edit, see picture aha2 and aha3), unfortunately this is not possible for keys when sorting on the input link of a stage. Especially when doing stuff li...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release

Group level credential mapping

Information Server admin console or Command line interface does not have a feature to credential map IIS group to engine credentialing ID. Please develop at least CLI command to credential map IIS group to engine user. This would allow all group u...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5 DataStage support Date and Time data type for Parquet

We have been using IIS 11.5 with FP2 for couple years now for Hadoop data ingestion. New version of Parquet has provide date, time date type. Other tools and language has adopted this very quickly. Now we have received a lot of request to load Dat...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

New Role in DataStage

To satisfy the segregation of duties risk requirement we need a new admin role with below functionality.Assign project roles to InfoSphere DataStage suite users in the InfoSphere DataStage Administrator client •Use the Administrator client to crea...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration