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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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Request for New DataStage Project Role -- DataStage Monitor

Request for a New DataStage Project Role -- "DataStage Monitor". Currently the existing 4 DataStage Project Roles does not cover all the user case criteria that our Team has. GIS Compliance and Internal Bank Policies mandate that DataStage Develop...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

Before/After SQL mentioned in oracle connector is not displaying in the job log

In oracle connector, if we have mentioned any SQL query in before/After SQL, that mentioned query is not displaying in the job log instead its showing like the query has been executed. It will be helpful if we see the actual query in the job log. ...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Share WKC Metadata by column with DataStage

(I'll post a second Idea with Watson Studio also) When Data Assets have been documented/Business Metadata has been added, like Description, Business Term and so, this is a great value for Data Engineers. They need this information to build their d...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Have the ability to store the error records from and HTTP stage or JDBC stage seperately.

This feature request is to have the ability to write the erroneous records from an http stage (client/processor) or jdbc stages directly to a dedicated data source(local fs/table). Currently the failed records along with logs from all stages are w...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Request to update document the instruction to upload CSV files via Web browser on Data transform

Update the following document with the instruction how to upload CSV files via Web browser on Data transform. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQNUZ_2.5.0/cpd/access/data-sources.html
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Pipeline and Job Selection for Engine Assignment

To assign or change SDC engine assignment for pipelines and jobs it is currently required that an admin go into each pipeline and job one-at-a-time, edit the object into draft mode, change the assigned engine, then check in the object. Please make...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 1 Functionality already exists

Unable to Rename a Pipleline as same as Datastage Flow - SAVE AS option not available

While trying to take a backp/copy of a datastage flow/parallel job, we are able to change the name of the job without opening the actual job(Snapshot1). But when we try to do the same for Pipeline, the job name is suffixed with "_copy_1" by defaul...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Under review

Provide an option for Deferred merge method in Snowflake destination

https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/guide/connectors_example_push_based_java/img/e5a0394034661f7.pdf Deferred merge is a pattern whereby you maintain a temporary or hot data table (1) with changed or new records for an interval of time. When that ti...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 1 Not under consideration

Datastage supporting generic API's to an external security provider

Background:GDPR is bringing an eminent need to safely secure sensitive (customer-) data. This is bringing new requirements to the tools that have access to this data. DataStage, due to the functional nature of the tool, is requiring extremely high...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration