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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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Re-Start DataStage job (or sequence) with identical parameter settings

It would be a huge benefit to get an simple option to start a job or sequence with the identical parameter settings of the last run. Having Jobs with many parameters and parameter sets this takes time to do it manually and the parameters have to b...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Be able to add or remove stages on a link in DataStage Designer

Currently when you want to add a new stage on an existing link, you have to deconnect the link from one of its stage, add the new stage and create a new link from that stage (remapping the Input columns to the Output, which is currently not possib...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

CLI to set property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” for DataStage projects

We use the property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” at project level in some DataStage projects. To define the message handler, we start the "InfoSphere DataStage Administor" tool, select the DataStage project, then button "Properties" and tab...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Modification of SCD Stage to allow custom date specification

SCD stage inserts new rows (type 2) with the effective date derived from runtime. This is sufficient for updated rows. We would like to specify a different date for initial records.
about 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Unable to read SQL stements from file using Goole BigQuery Connector stage.

Need to be able to read SQL stements from file using Goole BigQuery Connector stage.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Partitioned reads from Google BigQuery should permit selection of column used to generate the partition query

BigQuery database supports partitioning of tables like range partitioning and time partitioning. If the table is already partitioned on the database side, then that particular column will be used to create the partition queries: https://cloud.goog...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve Performance of Aggregator stage with Decimal output

Aggegator is a typical standard stage to implement Sum or Maximum calculation.But Sum or Maximum value can be implemented by Transformer stage.However, the performance of Aggregator stage implementing Sum or Maximum value with Decimal output optio...
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IN and NOT IN in transformer

In parallel transformer(Datastage) IN and NOT IN are not supported,it is being implemented by no of OR and/or OR and NOT operator. Also if any dynamic conditions need to be provided from a single parameter it can not be possible.So IN and NOT IN n...
over 10 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

UI for DS to user-friendly, proactively recognize whether I can start up an environment of a certain size or not

Related to CPDIDEAS-I-561 so the UIs for the services (WS. WKC and DS) can be built. This is to proractively and user-reldy determine be informed if not sufficient resources are available per nodto start an R or Notebook runtime environment.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Productize the grid tool kit with in InfoSphere information Server

Productize the grid tool kit with in InfoSphere information Server Basically this request should go with IIS -General (entire Suite) .
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration