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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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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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Create Schema Based on Shared Container Links

When columns of the Shared Container links do not match the metadata of the stage in the job on mapping it, you should have the option to add the missing columns in the schema.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support of Oracle 12 release 2

Are there any plans to provide patches for 11.5 and 11.3 that would make them compatible with Oracle 12.2? Can we escalate a request for those patches to be created? How quickly could we expect a patch if they will create one for us. If we have ou...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Data Flow Designer GitHub/BitBucket Integration

We are using bitbucket through command line for all our code migration activities. We were hoping to see Data Flow Designer provide a UI based integration with BitBucket and GitHub. However the gap is that for the connectivity to work, GIT needs s...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Info Server TFS integration with multiple repositories

We would like the ability to integrate with multiple TFS repositories from our DataStage servers.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance slowly changing dimension stage to full bi temporal join

Enhance the functionality of the stage "Slowly changing dimension" to a bi temporal functionality like the time travel feature from DB2. A typical use case in every DWH or data lake project is to store all versions of the data which you get from y...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce Connector - Datastage V11 - API 40

Actually, we can use the api 39 in the salesforce connector and we need to use the 40.0 release.Moreover , the 41.0 release is done in salesforce.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Display Services Tier operating system resources in Ops Console

In an environment where ISD jobs are exposed and IGC is also used it would be useful to be able to view the resources for the services tier.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add a Merge Key Columns option to the Full Outer Join

When doing a Full Outer Join in the Join Stage, you will receive two Sets of Key Columns in the Output named leftRec_Keycolumnname and rightRec_Keycolumnname, for which you then have to do something like NullToValue(leftRec_Keycolumnname,rightRec_...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Log specifics of 'missing engine OS privileges'

As per TS004304542, we get errors like the above, but there is nothing to indicate precisely which permission is missing. This makes it hard to track down issues.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable to adjust max file size for bulk load with SFDC pack

When job runs with bulk load to Salesforce, we encountered error with error message below from Salesforce. ClientInputError Failed to read request. Exceeded max size limit of 10000000 This is caused by the limitation of Salesforce, 10000000 charac...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration