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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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Connector arrow position should be on same position of mouse cursor position on DFD.

On DFD on CP4D, when scaling the screen, connector arrow position is different to mouse cursor position. It happened in scaling by web browser scaling function and DFD scaling function.
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Implementation of Designtime Column Propagation to the DataStage Designer

Building new Jobs with DataStage ist implemented good, but amending these Jobs later can be a source of pain, especially if you have to add, delte or amend a column. It should be possible to add a new column or amend an existing one and propagate ...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Enable Email Notifications for Pipeline Failures

On Datastage 11.7 we are able to send emails when a pipeline fails. In Cloud Datastage we are unable to do so. This causes us extra work to check on job statuses.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Generate schema from SQL statement

In DB2 Connector stage it should be possible to generate the schema based on the (handcoded) Select statement. It could be an additional option of the Tools Button ("Generate schema/columns").
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Serverside job compilation

Job compilation is now available in Flow Designer introduced in v11.7 with API. Can this API be open or from command line on server
about 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Support for Hypervisor Nutanix AHV

Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) is quite widely used and some customers running DataStage on win would like to deploy it on AHV (currently 5.2.0). Other IBM products (eg. BAW are certified on Nutanix AHV) and it should be important to have it t...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Enabling parallel execution with Redshift Connector

Currently the Datastage Redshift connector supports only a sequential execution and does not support parallel execution, which for moving large objects is not very efficient as it doesn't take advantage of the native parallel unload and copy capab...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Lookup with multiple reference links

Lookup Stage with multiple reference link does not mention on which link duplicatates occur.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

The DataStage Balanced Optimizer does not support range lookups in lookup stage

Jobs that contain lookup stages that contain a range lookup, when optimized do not have SQL generated that enforces the lookup range. Response from IBM Support case (TS001477845) is to open RFE as DataStage is working as intended.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration