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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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Ability to schedule job running at higher granularity than a day

As a Job administrator, I would like to schedule jobs running more frequently within a day, maybe running every hour.Currently, Director allows a job to be scheduled to run twice a day. To allow the jobs to run every hour, we have to create 12 sch...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automate migration of DataStage job with Enterprise Data Warehouse as the target to Hadoop

Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) optimization has been observed as the most common use case for data lake initiatives. Off loading EDW data into Hadoop provides a highly cost-efficient environment with optimal performance, scalability and flexibili...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Job name change while migrating jobs from DataStage to ClearCase

We are integrating Infosphere DataStage 11.5 with ClearCase 8.0.1 and it was successful but when we are migrating DataStage jobs to ClearCase VOB job names are not getting replicated as it is instead of that jobs are added with an extension. Examp...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Connect from Datastage to Salesforce using SAML Transaction (Federated Authentication)

We are looking for an ability in Salesforce Connector Stage to Connect from Datastage to Salesforce using SAML Transaction (Federated Authentication). Background: How Federated Authentication Works- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) provid...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support Japanese character for column name, job name, stage name and routine name

DataStage supports "alphabetic character" for column name. But my customer want to use Japanese(Kanji) for column name because they now use Japanese for column name in host system and MS SQL Server system. And they want to keep "Rules for name def...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need new NLS ISO 639-2 alpha-2 in DataStage 11.5

SAP Tech Upgrade to release 750 version introduces new characters in T002T ABAP table in SPRSL field for Hindi, Kazakh, Vietnamese value in column SPTXT, which DataStage is not able to translate and extracting junk characters.SAP NOTE: 319916 was ...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Datastage SyncProject Utility

While using the SyncProject to fix the corrupted project, project has been moved from original location to the default project location (/opt/IBM/InformationServer/Server/Projects/). Ideally utility should recover the project at the same location ...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow to reduce amount of logs

We are using WLM with Datastage and noticed that DSWLM creates huge amout of logdata in "...DSWLM/logs". I think it would be a good idea, to configure DSNWLM to supress Messages flagged as INFO and log only Errors.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Import metadata from MySQL tables from any schema in a database using IS Connector Import Wizard

Our organization uses MySQL as a staging DBMS to store data tables that will be used in ETL jobs to feed the analysis environment.These tables are defined by procedures external to IS, usually with the IDR replication product.Development teams nee...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Richiesta sviluppo connettore IBM infosphere datastage 11.x verso Oracle ESSBASE versione 11.1.2.4

Si richiede la realizzazione del connettore IBM infosphere datastage 11.x verso Oracle ESSBASE versione 11.1.2.4. L'attuale connessione funzionava con le versioni Datastage 9.1.2 e ESSBASE 11.1.2.3, benché non certificata. Sullo stesso ambiente D...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration