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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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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 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Future 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 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

User notification and Audit trail

Hi, This is in reference to IBM ticket # CS3963530. Below 3 Items were discussed as part of this IBM ticket and recently we are informed that to raise enhancement request. item1: We have raised above ticket few months back when we noticed that a U...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Engine Creation - permissions (Anywhere AAS)

Please do not restrict environment creation on Datastage Anywhere AAS projects to the person who created the engine. If that person is unavailable, we cannot create environments.
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Add a link ordering option to DataStage Sequence Activities

In several DataStage stages there is a link ordering option (e.g. Transformer or Join Stage), this is not the case for DataStage Sequence Activities. If a sequence has multiple output links, then the order of these can only be changed by deattachi...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

MSK is looking for a native connector for Databricks on AWS.

We already have for Azure. We should have a native connector for AWS to avoid multi-step load/registration via S3 connector. More customers will be asking beyond MSK.
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

auto clearance of "snappy" files

Snappy files are getting created while making AWS s3 connections under the path /dstmp. after sometime number files are getting larger and larger which may impact potential failures to jobs or environment level issues. to auto clean those IBM shou...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Salesforce Connector support for other fields other then Id and External ID fields of Reference Objects for Load Operations

Salesforce Connector support for other fields other then Id and External ID fields of Reference Objects for Load Operations
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Query / Set DS Project NLS setting using command line

Need command line option to query & set NLS setting for a datastage project. currently it is handled thru GUI which is very time consuming for large volume of projects and looking for options to validate / automate programmatically.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Fix "Import column" stage to allow to properly validate numeric values

Data validation is extremely useful for any enterprise, but this stage is not working for numeric values, although it's the 'expected behaviour'. Validation for other data types already works as expected. But, not being able to properly validate n...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration