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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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Change behaviour of duplicate entries in Range Lookups

When using a range lookup (range selected on the main stream) when matching e.g. a key column and range of date from/to you may get more than one hit for the key but the range on the date columns will make the lookup unique, in this case you still...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Relocate the BQ connector connection information from bottom of log to top of log

Currently, when using the BQ connector in DataStage On-Prem, the connection information used to connect to the GOOGLE BQ environment, including the transaction ID is placed in the log at the end of the job process. It would be more helpful to have...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

The Hadoop name node GetFile Operation slowing down the job performance

While the dataset is getting generated, the segmented files with zero byte gets created first then the process start filling the data on the segmented files sequentially. If there isn’t enough volume to fill all the 8 segments ( CSDP uses 8 segmen...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

GitHub Repository URL and Cloned Repository Path Setup at Project Level

GitHub integration is a new feature in DS 11.7. Our DataStage environment hosts multiple projects sharing same server instance. In order for GitHub to work, we need to setup a Github repository URL and Cloned Repository Path, however it is only co...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere datastage connecting to SCALITY - AWS S3 compatible storage

Hello Team, As per our client requirement, We need to establish the connectivity to SCALITY (AWS S3 compatible storage) from datastage 11.7.1 / 11.7.1.3 to place all our archival files into cloud storage. For that POC, we used S3 connector stage &...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enabling parallel execution with Redshift Connector

Currently the Datastage Redshift connector supports only a sequential execution and does not support parallel execution, which for moving large objects is not very efficient as it doesn't take advantage of the native parallel unload and copy capab...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need a DataStage super operator role with export permission

We have a requirement due to SOX auditing rules that developers can have read-only access to the DataStage jobs in production. However, we would still like the developers to be able to export the jobs so they can be moved to the non-prod environme...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Online InfoSphere backup

Currently the backup requires the InfoSphere services to be shutdown, before the application and database backup can be taken. We would like to be able to create a full system online backup, while the InfoSphere services are still running.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Seperate user's access roles privilege for the Datastage Designer client and Director client

Privilege to assign user access roles in Administrator client separately for Datastage Designer client access and Datastage Director client access.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage - GIT Integration for DevOps - Collaboration of CI/CD process

In DFD tool, we can push the changes to GIT repository. General case is, Developer 1 is working on a making changes to Data Stage job and it is under UAT in PRE Production server. Developer 2 is working on the same job for Enhancement work. It is ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration