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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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Need support for Oracle Linux 8

MMC policy is to use Oracle Linux instead of RHEL.
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SAP PACK, ODP Delta-initialization for classification datasources

We extract classification data from SAP , in intial-mode with ODP this takes about 10 minutes. Not being able to run the datasources in delta-mode this is a performance issue. I reported this bug as a case but this way was unfortunately not succes...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Searchable Operations Console

Enable the ability to search and filter in the operations console. The ability to filter when viewing a job for a specific invocation id would be ideal.
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add search capability for stages on the designer canvas

If you have very large sequences, it can get difficult to find the job that you need to change as you need to scroll through the whole sequence. It would be very handy to be able to search on the designer canvas based on different criteria (stage ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Compile the datastage jobs on server side cmnd line

We have the client command line for job compile dscc.exe. Do we have the job compile command line on the server side such as dscc.sh? I could not find it on the server. Please add it to the server side.
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Datastage 11.7.1.5 - support for Openshift 4.17 hypervisor

Our company is preparing to migrate from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. I reviewed the system requirements for the hypervisor list but couldn’t find support for the OpenShift 4.17 hypervisor. It appears that the current version of Dat...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

DataStage Jobs failure because of RCP Issue in BQ Connectors

During BQ ds job run, jobs are getting failed as RCP is enabled 1.RCP is enabled at every stage in a common/multi instance job. 2. There is no option to drop missing columns at BQ connector(Target table) and source data has extra columns which are...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

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 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Information Server Manager (ISM) 11.3 interface to GIT source control

Nordea Bank would like to have a seamless interface between Information Server Manager and GIT for version 11.3 on Linux.
over 9 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration