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


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Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

DataStage - Azure [Datalake] Storage Connector - Support parallelism parquet format

From PMR it has been confirmed that: Parallel Read/write - CSV and Delimited only support parallel write operations, rest of all file formats do not support parallel read/write. Parquet format doesn't support parallel read/write It is not document...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

S3 connector request for Datastage (TS003424088)

Using Infosphere Information Server 11.7.1. Service Pack 2, we noticed that we are unable to create a data connection for Amazon S3 in DataStage to a private endpoint (not the usual public Amazon endpoints). We are unable to read/write information...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Salesforce select only fields for the object. Do not automatically bring back all fields in the child relationships.

This is about the DataStage Salesforce Connector. When building the Salesforce Connector Stage by importing the objects fields from Salesforce using the "Browse Objects" function . A list of tables in Salesforce will be presented. One can click th...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

DataStage supporting writing data to GCP GCS with CMEK

DataStage (11.7.1) Google Cloud Storage (GCS) connector failed to write data into GCS, not supporting Customer Managed Encryption Key (CMEK). We in HSBC use CMEK in all components in GCP. If this is enabled, we can use GCS with DataStage directly....
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Request information server support for DB2 Ingest utility

support for DB2 ingest utility available from DB2 10.1to be added to Information Server.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Support of external OS authentication in Oracle optimized connector

None of the Oracle connectors in Cloud Pak for Data supports external OS authentication whereas IIS did support it. As we know from legacy that external OS authentication method requires DataStage user (like dsadm) to be created in Oracle DB, to a...
5 months ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

ODBC - Bulk Load capability

CP4D - DataStage will be used in the data flows defined in our datalake using Postgres and Azure SQL. Because we are required to use the ODBC Connector for the connections we require the capability of doing Bulk Loads , exactly as this is offered ...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Support GCP's Cloud Spanner as the available data sources in CP4D's DataStage

My Clients can transfer and analyze data on only CP4D without buying and develop new software and tool.
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

DataStage Snowflake Connector lacking "OAuth" support.

IBM DataStage Snowflake Connector is lacking feature to support OAuth. From Security perspective and risk management department: DTCC as an organization objective all connections to snowflake is - "to leverage OAuth token feature" We need IBM to w...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 6 Not under consideration