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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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DataStage

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DataStage Kafka Connector should support schema compatibility set to FULL

Kafka Connector job failed with schema compatibility mode set to FULL. We got error "Schema being registered is incompatible with an earlier schema; error code: 409". Currently user has to change the Kafka schema compatibility mode to NONE from Po...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

DFD Icons

We need that read-only dfd (Datastage Flow Designer) users are not able to click the icons and links corresponding to the operations they cannot perform. For example, We would like that read-only user not to be able to click on the job creation link.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow for scripting of DataStage environment variable export.

Hi, This is a enhancement request to facilitate the scripting of the export of DataStage environment variables to a file. This operation can be manually executed using the DataStage Administrator client but I cannot find an equivalent command whic...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improper error handling

Ineffective error handling in application exposes internal application information to application users, which can help the enumeration of application components by an attacker. Impact Any leakage of internal application information may provide de...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ODBC Driver for postgresql 14

Hello Team, the client he works for needs the use of the odbc driver for postgresql 14. It was confirmed to me in the case that I opened to support that progress has already certified version 14 of postgress but IBM has not yet started to distribu...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Big Integrate BDFS stage to support parameters.

This request is an offshoot of Case TS008439858. While migrating new jobs to 11.7 that run in a different hadoop cluster, we have run into an issue writing hdfs data to an encryption zone. Our hadoop team is hesitant to set these cluster wide beca...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage reportdocument images in JPG and not BMP

Want an option to specify image format of JPG in dsdesign.exe
about 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Accurate TIMESTAMP values for the detailed DataStage log reports.

DataStage's detailed log reports do not have accurate TIMESTAMP values that represent when any of the underlying events actually started and/or completed. We have dozens of jobs that run for a half an hour or longer and without having accurate TIM...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Data Stage Integration/Connectivity with Infor (https://www.infor.com/) source

Hello, Problem Statement: Recently we came to know from IBM Support that Data Stage can't connect to Infor using jdbc connector stage. I am submitting this new idea based on IBM rep's recommendation. Please see IBM case# TS008021248. Benefits/Valu...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists