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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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Automatic directory creation on Node managers

We have IS 11.5.0.1 installed on Hadoop HDP 2.4.Customer had to inform their hadoop admin team to create .../InformationServer directory and ISProject directory on Node Managers. Customer is using non default IS Project path ,Every time they are c...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Installer to identify active DataStage processes

While installing patch on DataStage it took 5hrs to complete the installation . After debugging it is found out that there are active processes hung the patch installation . As part of patch installation we set maintenance mode ON . During install...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Display Record Counts on Job Desing Links in Operations Console

When viewing the job Run history in the Operations Console, I would like to be able to select a previous run and then display the job design with the record counts shown on each of the links in the job. Ideally I would also like to be able to see ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

How to clone IIS environment

Our IIS environment consists of 3 tiers:• Services tier host• Engine tier host• Metadata repository on Oracle database We are looking into way how to “clone” such an environment and produce a new environment, which is placed on different...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Purge Finished, Aborted or Crashed Multiple-Instance/ISD DataStage Jobs

Need to delete old Datastage job instances that are Finished, Aborted or Crashed in an automated way. It is the same procedure that we do manually in DataStage Director tool when we select job instances and right-click "Delete". The practical use ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve the Aggregator Stage

The Aggregator Stage hasn't change for a long time and there are a lot of things that could be improved, currently a lot of things is done with sorting, keychange and transformer variables (or in a database connector) instead of using a Aggregator...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

InfoSphere DataStage File Connector stage

I've just opened File Connector stage (version 11.3.1.2) for the first time, only to find that the Help button is disabled.
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add a "Test Derivation" option for Transformer derivations

When coding Transformer derivations it would be very nice to have (similar to "Validate Derivation") a "Test Derivation" Option that would work like a "View Data" in e.g. a Connector Stage. When using this option, DataStage would ask for the value...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration