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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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DataStage

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Enable the setting of non key partitioning of a link on the canvas via right click

Currently when Setting the partitioning of a link you have to go inside a stage to the Input and Partitioning Tab, which e.g. in case of the transformer or lookup stages takes 4 clicks to get there (the shortcut via right click on the stage and se...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Data flow cycle" in Parallel Jobs

Currently "Data flow cycle" are not allowed in DataStage PX as described in the error message IIS-DSEE-TFSR-00035. This maybe is correct for most cases to prevent wrong design, but it would be very usefull when working with parent-child hierarchie...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Information Server manager Support Eclipse 4.2.2

Client Use BITBucket as primary source control system BitBucket Support eclipse 4.2.2 System: BtiBucketActor: User needing new feature for Information Server Manager to support update version of eclipse Product BtiBucket is a commonly used product...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Ad-hoc SQL execution support

Using IBM DataStage 11.3, I observed that DatStage does not have flexible option to execute SQL and capture its output. I understand its doable if we use ODBC/Sybase stage but I want to execute SQL during sequence activities to decide on course of...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Oracle 12c Release 1 64 bit Client / Windows 2012R

InfoSphere Information Server on Windows2012R2 should work with Oracle 64bit client for client data sources. The 32bit Oracle client isn't supported by Oracle, somehow. Customer wants to use Windows 2012R2 because they use an Oracle RAC SUN solari...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Optimistic concurrency in the BigQuery write modes

ibm engineering has asked WMT to add an enhancement request for Optimistic concurrency in the Google BigQuery write modes
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Datastage Debugger - Add more funcationality

Add more functionality to the debugger such as:- Keyboard shortcuts to the menu items (Step to next link, step to next row)- Continue on break point for the next Nth number of rows- Stop at break point if watched column ever has specified value - ...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Migration Tool Oracle to DB2

Transform Connector Migration Tool to transform Oracle Connector to DB2 Connector
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Make a FastTrack a tool suitable for designing and documenting ETL mapping

The InfoSphere tool suite is missing a piece.It is a great tool to govern you data warehouse using IGC with the business glossary, data lineage viewer among the highlights and it is a great tool to create the ETL flows in. What about the inbetween...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make designer handle large screen

Please make DataStage Designer able to support large Screen The current resolution is not satisfying.See : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR33780
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration