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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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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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Output error message from Salesforce into job log

We encountered the error on bulk load with Salesforce, but there is less details output to log file (see attached, error log from job log). We identified that this is caused by Salesforce error below, but the exception message is not output to job...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add a bulk edit option for link sorting/partitioning

When sorting in the sort stage you edit the options of serveral keys together (i call this bulk edit, see picture aha2 and aha3), unfortunately this is not possible for keys when sorting on the input link of a stage. Especially when doing stuff li...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

dsjob command provides -logpurging option.

When the customer runs many instances of a multi-instance job at the same time, the auto purging process sometimes removes wrong entries in the RT_STATUS file unexpectedly. This behavior causes a serious result, because dsjob with -jobinfo can not...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5 DataStage support Date and Time data type for Parquet

We have been using IIS 11.5 with FP2 for couple years now for Hadoop data ingestion. New version of Parquet has provide date, time date type. Other tools and language has adopted this very quickly. Now we have received a lot of request to load Dat...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Requesting that IBM certify Datastage 11.5 on Power9 and AIX 7.1 TL4

All, We specifically purchased this hardware to host DataStage after reviewing the available documentation on the IBM website(See links below). We are unable to upgrade to 11.7 because we rely heavily on CDC in our processing as well as other comp...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions higher than 11 (i.e.12,13)

According to the IBM, the following document is available online in regards to DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions, it only has until SLES Version 11: http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compa...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Information server client tier on Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).

Allow InfoSphere Information server client tier to run on Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Oracle balanced optimization doesn't support timestamp data type with microseconds

Our business requirement is to store date fields as timestamp with microsecond precision. Balanced optimization for Oracle is not able to optimize transformer stage that contains date literals with this precision. IBM engineering confirmed that th...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Docment for integrating Infosphere DataStage 11.3 with Oracle wallet (Oracle 12c)

Instructions to setup integration between Infosphere DataStage 11.3 and Oracle Wallet (Oracle 12c)
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

read text files with carriage returns in parallel jobs

PARALLEL job's Sequential File Stage throws an error reading a .csv file that contains a carriage return inside a char/varchar field. There is no option to read the data within a parallel job. SERVER job's Sequential File Stage has the column opti...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration