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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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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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BDFS to File Connector migration support

Hi,We are currently using HDP 2.6.2 from DataStage 11.5.0.2 and using BDFS stage. Since Connector Migration Tool does not support the BDFS to File Connector conversion, therefore we would like to see if IBM has a solution. Thanks
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Should add checker function while importing BI report from CSV in IMAM

For importing BI Report from CSV using IMAM. If Report name in BI Query section not match to Report name in BI Report section, there are no warning about this. Then, Currently, I need to check it should exactly in csv file. To make sure asset impo...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Future consideration

Not able to generate user list report from Datastage version (11.7.1.1)

We are facing issue while generate user list report from IBM Information Admin console. In Our environment all user id's are bind with AD authentication.we select all required option to download the correct DataStage user list report and we get wr...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

CLI command to export/import DS-objects in XML format

After developing new DataStage objects (or changing them), we have to manually export them in order to get them in XML Format. The only CLI functionality provided is istools, that Exports DS objects as ISX, which is not usable within a Control Ver...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enable using comment lines in Transformer Derivations

When coding business logic into a transformer derivation it would be quite handy to be able to use comment lines like it is possible in SQL or any other programing language
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Data Stage v11.5 - View Data

Please be advice that I am not always on bank site therefore sometimes it will take me few days to reply your emails. we have migrate our data stage from version 8.5 to 11.5. due to the reason that 11.5 dose not supported any more with OCI stage (...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Faster loading of Table Definition with large repositories

Using Datastage Designer 11.5.0.1 on RHEL, we are experiencing a delay (2 to 3 minutes) after clicking the Load button to bring up the table definitions. We have a large repository about >2,000 table definitions.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Multi-Client Manager Change All Clients

When we use the multi-client manager, it only changes the classic clients (Designer, Director and Administrator). We would like it to change all clients including IBM InfoSphere Information Server Console and IBM InfoSphere Information Server Mana...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under 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...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration