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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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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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DecimalToString() function results differ when balanced optimization for Oracle is applied

We want to transform Decimal(38,10) into VarChar. DecimalToString() function transforms our decimals into string and they also get padded left and right with zeroes, which is default behavior of that function. However, when that job is optimized u...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

disabling "Import from File" option in the DataStage Administrator client

users under Developers role are able to see and perform "Import from File" option in the DataStage Administrator client.. i I have opened the PMR and support suggested to open RFE if non-DataStage administrators are able to access the Datastage ad...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

RCP with different nullabillty

Dear all, in a parallel job we load data e.g. from an oracle table T1 to table T2. A few colums are defined in the stages but we have extra columns that will be adopted and propagated because we use runtime column propagation.For example C1 is suc...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support SQL Server Clusters for InfoSphere repositories

My customer is using SQL Server Clusters and wants to be able to use them for the InfoSphere repositories... i.e. xmeta, xmetasr, iadb, srdb, esdb, dsodb.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Read-Only for Jobs, Sequences, Folders

Supply a Read-Only setting for Jobs, Sequences and / or folders in the repository.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

request to build v11.5.0.PX OEM package for aix, linux (and sun)

request to build v11.5.0.PX OEM package for aix, linux (and sun)package should include native dbms related libraries and all connectivity related components for oracle (12), teradata (15), java 8support of hadoopNote: while only one Operating Syst...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

create template osh scripts for oracle and teradata connectors

create template osh scripts for oracle and teradata connectors to read, load and update (if applicable) data to/from databases have them fully parameterized to have parameters passed when running oshparameters for : userID, password, database serv...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

osh.exe and orchadmin.exe are overwritten by installer

Customer is using GTK , while patching one of the head node their osh.exe and orchadmin.exe got replaced . so they have to replace these files everytime there is fixpack or rollup installed. This is known limitation http://www-01.ibm.com/support/d...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

request to support sun with 11.5.0 PX OEM (IIS 11.5.0)

we need sun support with IIS 11.5.0 PX OEM
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage Connect to Apache Kudu

Apache Kudu has the capability of SQL insert and update, and also support Spark RDD. It's much better than Hive and Impala, which no update is possible. If Datastage and Cognos support connection to Kudu as other databases, it would be great.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration