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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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DataStage

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Oracle 18c support in DataStage v11.5

There seems to no support for connecting to Oracle 18c Database from DataStage 11.5 or 11.7
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Windows 10 pro operating system- 11.7 & 11.5 and 11.3 datastage clients dump

Hi Team, We are not able to see the Datastage 11.7 & 11.5 and 11.3 clients software dump for Windows 10 pro operating system in IBM portal. case id:TS001093463
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Add FTPS functionality in FTP Enterprise stage

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Increase the Variable length key record to greater 32767

We are getting an error while executing a Datastage job. We didn't see any explanation of this error online. Error: Sort_record_strings,0: Trouble encoding sort keys: Variable-length key "record" length too large (35074), limit is 32767 Please rev...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support rich-text in annotations

Annotations should allow rich-text to provide formatting capabilites like bullet or numbered lists, bold, underlined and italic text and so on.It would be nice to allow ASCIIDoc or Markdown formatting (like in Jira or Gitlab).
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IIS 11.7 Configure the Operations Console to use the ssh program rather than the rsh

Context: IIS on Hadoop is configured by using engine tier on edge node topology. When you run your job on this environment and if you want analyze the performance stats on each worker node then its not available because the communication protocol ...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Non-root Installation

Currently installation as non-root user is not possible. One of the first checks during installation is whether the logged in user is root.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ISX Export Path and File Name

The DataStage plug-in, in the ISX Export step in UCD doesn't allow to include either the PATH nor the File Name. There is no control on the these things.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Istool command gives "Export failed" when nothing to export

We use the istool.sh command to export parts of XMETA repository. If there is nothing to export, the command returns an "Export failed" message, that causes trouble in our generic error handling functionality. In my opinion the message "Export fai...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable developers to manage SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW clients

Request to make users with Developer role possible to manage (add/modify/remove) SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW client.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration