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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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DataStage

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SEARCH stage in JOB DFD

Create a SEARCH by stage name Datastage in job in the DFD application. In order to facilitate the finding of the stages in DFD in large jobs.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ODBC, OCI and DRS connectors are failing if the source table column length are not matched with defined column length in the connector

In old OCI, DRS and ODBC, the stage won't check the column length of the database table and what we defined in the stage, and it won't give any warning about column mismatch and won't truncate the data if the given length is smaller than the datab...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Inadequate information when a job was aborted

All of DataStage multi-instance jobs were aborted.Message "Attempting to Cleanup after ABORT raised in job " was shown in the job log without any clue to why the job was aborted. The investigation was done but the cause was unknown. The request is...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need WebSphere MQ 9.x supported by InfoSphere Information Server - DataStage 11.5

Currently we are 50 percent complete of a new a Grid enabled InfoSphere Information Server - DataStage 11.5.0.2 build. We learned that this version supports WebSphere MQ - 7.1.x, 7.5.x, 8.0. We were expecting to install version 9.0.0.2 of MQ - see...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SAP S/4 HANA compactibiltiy with IBM IIS suite (v11.5)

SAP S/4 HANA Compatibility for all of Information Server suite – ie DataStage, IA,IMAM ,IGC (all Metadata components as well)
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Access logs and other cloud analytics for strategic planning

When users only open the application form with their id, we are unable to get their login/logoff credentials, despite our best efforts in analytics planning. Seeing login logs for just users who are completing actions in application was enabled in...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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

Improving RapidJobUpdateTool

Hello My company doesn't want to use DB2 and Oracle anymore, we are moving to PGS. We have a lot a datastage jobs using those DBMS. I would like to automatise the swicth from a DB2 stage to an ODBC one but RapidJobUpdateTool doesn't have ODBC in t...
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
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration