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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

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.

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Support InfoSphere DataStage 11.3 on Windows 10

Bank of Canada is planning to upgrade all Windows platform to Windows 10 by the end of year. The DataStage client tools currently are not supported on Windows 10. This limitation will have impact to the Windows upgrade project.
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

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.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Lookup with multiple reference links

Lookup Stage with multiple reference link does not mention on which link duplicatates occur.
almost 8 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.
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

CP4D - Super operator role specific to project

We created a new group and assigned Datastage Super Operator for that group. We created a new project in CP4D dev and assigned that role to that project. We have a user with Developer_BOA access to multiple projects. When this user get access for ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - canvas

When you change something in the job, flow designer changes the layout of the job in the canvas.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - "clear mapping" option

"Clear mapping" is an option in DataStage Designer but not in flow designer. Don't see "clear mapping" as an option in flow designer, because of which if there is any change to remove map for a certain field, we have to start over from scratch. Fo...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0

Before/After SQL mentioned in oracle connector is not displaying in the job log

In oracle connector, if we have mentioned any SQL query in before/After SQL, that mentioned query is not displaying in the job log instead its showing like the query has been executed. It will be helpful if we see the actual query in the job log. ...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Ability to bulk export/push jobs from Data Flow Designer to GITHUB repository

In the current 11.7 implementation, each datastage job has to be pushed on to GITHUB repository. Say that there are 100 jobs in a datastage project, each job has to be opened in the flow designer and then published to the GITHUB repo. This is a ti...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

CP4D - Dump whole dataset to a text file

In legacy we can dump the complete data of a dataset into a text file. Here if we use cpdctl dsjob view-dataset, it dumps limited number of rows. We need a feature to dump complete data of a dataset to text file.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1