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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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DataStage

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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
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Lookup with multiple reference links

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

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

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 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Advanced Security Option and Infosphere Information Server

This request is to establish a clear definition on what is supported with Oracle Advanced Security Option (OAS) and InfoSphere Information Server. Network level encryption is now available to all Oracle environments to use freely to have secure co...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Questions related to what Linux utilities are being used by IIS

Our security scanners have noticed that multiple files from multiple servers do not have either a user or group ID, or even both. These files seem to be found on the Microservice Tier, as the example below: OS_team: -rw-r--r-- ug_kafka 9092 /v...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Possibility to search where within stages

I would like to be able to search where different assets/params/connections etc are used within stages in DS
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0

MettleCI compliance testing integration with Next-Gen DataStage

MettleCI compliance testing integration with Next-Gen DataStage
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release