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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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.

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Enhancement to be able to import common Cobol Copy book format

System: BigIntegrateActor: User needing enhancement to existing feature Nationwide is moving processing from mainframe to hdfs for analytics. There are hundreds of COBOL copybooks describing the metadata of the sources and targets, and there is mu...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to pass query params in SAP Odata Stage

Currently Odata stage is able to connect to a SAP system and select a service or table but there is no way we are able to pass any parameters to extract only a limited set of data
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Parameter support when creating standalone database connection assets

When creating a Database connection I would like to use parameters for the connection details. This is currently possible when using flow connection in job but we have a hundreds of job that are allready using existing connection created through i...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Report functionality for annual review of users within projects that are within ldap groups ou=Datastage

I have attached the below steps it takes for me to get a file of users from a certain project within datastage. I'd love it if there was a report feature to grab these details without all the clicks and file saving. Please look over the document a...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Should add checker function while importing BI report from CSV in IMAM

For importing BI Report from CSV using IMAM. If Report name in BI Query section not match to Report name in BI Report section, there are no warning about this. Then, Currently, I need to check it should exactly in csv file. To make sure asset impo...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to dsjob command to show status on multiple instance jobs

The following command does not list multiple instance jobs:dsjob -ljobs -status 0/4 EDW If I have a running or queued multiple instance the above command will not list it as running or queued. This seems like a oversite, because the Status command...
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Questions related to what Linux utilities are being used by IIS

Our security scanners have noticed that multiple files from multiple servers do not have either a user or group ID, or even both. These files seem to be found on the Microservice Tier, as the example below: OS_team: -rw-r--r-- ug_kafka 9092 /v...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

MettleCI compliance testing integration with Next-Gen DataStage

MettleCI compliance testing integration with Next-Gen DataStage
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

[Watson Pipeline] Link the script (any runtime) result to stage parameter directly

We would to have the possibility to execute runtime on the trigger job stage directly instead of creating a new node.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0