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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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istool import - add mapping option for FastTrack assets

We would like to add the ability to the istool command to allow for the importing of fasttrack assets using a mapping file along with the isx file.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make it more difficult to accidentally close windows in DataStage

When working in (for example) a Transformer, if you accidentally click outside of the pop-up window, the window will close like hitting the cancel button and all the work you'd done so far is gone. This can be extremely frustrating. On a similar n...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Ajouter la gestion de l'avro dans le composant kafka connector - Add avro management in kafka connector component

Bonjour Le Connector Kafka ne supporte les schémas Avro qu'avec des types simple, pas de "Record", "Array", "Enum" ou "Map". Il faut penser à ajouter la gestion des "Record", "Array", "Enum" ou "Map". impossible de travailler sans ça HelloThe Kafk...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enabling Single Sign-On for IIS web clients (thin clients) using eTAI within WebSphere Application Server

Need formal support for IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) Enhanced Trust Association Interceptor (eTAI) as a web-SSO mechanism for IIS thin clients (web apps) proxied through ISAM WebSEAL. The eTAI works fine on IE but not on Firefox. It is proba...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

XMETA SQL Query via Connector

My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach. Our prop...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Snowflake connector - Insert new rows only

The current Snowflake connector does not support inserting only new rows using a merge statement if there are only key columns and no attributes. For example, if you want to have every possible unique combination of 2 columns, there is currently n...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make encrypted connection to access server with chcclp without reading tls.properties

We have an environment where encrypted communication is mandatory. When users want to execute chcclp scripts on the access server, they need to read the tls.properties file of the access server to find the location of the trust store. But in the t...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Report List of User on Web Administration Console

When we make a Report list of users on Administration Console >> Create Report. However when created, it cannot display results that match the Assigned User in a Roles. Filter doesn't works. The results displayed are all users in the user LD...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

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 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

upgrade the Bulk Load stage in order to use TLS 1.2 ( server jobs )

I manage a DWH environment on which about 1000 server jobs are run every day that perform a data load using the MS Sql Server Bulk Load Datastage objects ( Datastage version 11.7 ). Those Datastage objects have been developed to use an embedded co...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration