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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Create SF_USE_LOCAL_TIMEZONE_DATEFIELD functionality for Timestamp fields

There seems to be an issue converting TimeStamp fields extracted from Salesforce to their correct timezone with the SF_USE_LOCAL_TIMEZONE_DATEFIELD setting that was suggested to me by IBM Support. It should be possible to have that same functional...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

WSDL 2.0 support enhancment

We would like Datastage to support WSDL 2.0 importing.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DataStage Flow Designer Integration with Git

We have started using Git for maintaining our DataStage codebase. We're able to publish/load the jobs to/from Git repo successfully. However, if we want to publish multiple jobs to the Git repository at once, current version of DataStage Flow Desi...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

Support for Custom URL within File connector HDFS

We need to import data files and folders as well as the file structure to IGC from Atlas HDFS, which is not possible when using Custom url.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration

Enhance DS Git integration for proper segregation between DTAP environments (TS003975527)

Currently, while using the Git Integration from Datastage Flow Designer, it is easy for any user to connect to any GitLab repository it had access and upload jobs inside it. The issue comes when on a Production environment, for example, you can lo...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ansible solution for USPS & QSAVI modules periodic reference files updates

IBM releases monthly/quarterly updates to the reference files for both USPS & QSAVI wherein we need to manually login to the IBM passport advantage portal and download the files and then apply them on our environment. We are looking for an aut...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Job Activity by compute node

Problem: How to determine which job caused high CPU usage on a specific compute node. Workaround: Using the IIS console 'Activity > Resources' narrow down the window of the event that occurred on the specific compute node. Parse the 'dslogger' ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage FlowDesigner add support for multi invocation of a job

DataStage Designer/Director support Multiple Invocations but the FlowDesigner (v11.7.1.1) does not support it. Please provide support for multi invocations for Sequences and parallel Jobs. That's a important feature that should not be thrown away ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Hide password arguments which is invoked in instance of dsidocsvr

We need to fix the issue: Passwords are visible on operation system level when the process is running ( command uses the password as parameter ). Thanks For example: dsad1er 2359796 1 0 May 03 - 38:49 dsidocsvr UVHOME=/opt/IBM/InformationServer115...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect