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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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Limit Access of non-admin users to Datastage Administrator Client

Limit non-admin users access administrator client or disable their access to change setup on protected projects
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

DataStage 11.5 client support for Windows 10

DataStage client version 11.5 is only supported up on Windows 7 and 8 operating systems. DataStage client should be supported on Windows 10.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Automatic cleanup DSODB log files

A management system log files for the DSODB console as implemented for the WAS console, with a number of rotation files, splitted in multiple files according a size parameter. and so on.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

istool import - add mapping option for FastTrack assets

We would like to add the ability to the istool command to allow for the importing of fasttrack assets using a mapping file along with the isx file.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Executing Oracle Stored procedures which returns a CURSOR or a REF_CORSOR

Need to be able to run Oracle Procedure that returns a Cursor or a REF Cursor
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IIS IDR Integration via KAFKA

DataStage:Kafka Connector in Information Server 11.7 does not support the use of schema registry or Avro JSON serialisation/deserialisation. IIDR (CDC) for Kafka on the other hand, produces Avro JSON serialised records into topics as default. Usin...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Serverside job compilation

Job compilation is now available in Flow Designer introduced in v11.7 with API. Can this API be open or from command line on server
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

how to reduce the number of generated yarn applications for hive connector stage

Several times of yarn applications is generated when using the hive connector stage in a DS job.For example, we have 6 hive connectors in one of our ds jobs.When the process node in default.apt is set to 2, about 18 yarn applications will be gener...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Set Display size in viwer for PX stages

Want to be able to set the default display size for each column, like is available in server stages. When I have multiple very wide columns, I can't show the first few characters of multiple ​columns in the viewer when they are very wide. A(40),...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Lookup with multiple reference links

Lookup Stage with multiple reference link does not mention on which link duplicatates occur.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration