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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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 Datastage job migrated from V11.5 to V11.7 and use the Azure File System for storage account

We have migrated our jobs from V11.5 to V11.7 environment and uses soft link to Azure file system (storage account) for users input/output files. users are not allowed to drop files on server local system due to Azure server restriction on our env...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 3 Is a defect

Information Server Manager (ISM) 11.3 interface to GIT source control

Nordea Bank would like to have a seamless interface between Information Server Manager and GIT for version 11.3 on Linux.
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enable RCP Support in Data Masking Stage

Request to enable runtime column propagation in the data masking stage. Currently the stage has the check box available on the output link however any columns passed through at runtime that are not specified at design time are automatically droppe...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Non-root Installation

Currently installation as non-root user is not possible. One of the first checks during installation is whether the logged in user is root.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Functional difference between Datastage V11.7 and V11.5.

The client has just migrated their Datastage jobs to V11.7 but they have an issue with variable names in the migrated rules. Although the lab managed to reproduce the issue, they responded two days ago stating that they do not have a workaround fo...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Enabling parallel execution with Redshift Connector

Currently the Datastage Redshift connector supports only a sequential execution and does not support parallel execution, which for moving large objects is not very efficient as it doesn't take advantage of the native parallel unload and copy capab...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - canvas

When you change something in the job, flow designer changes the layout of the job in the canvas.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - error visibility

When we have a setup problem/error in the hierarchy stage in the mapping Step or output step, the Datastage designer visibly mentions them at the moment in the regular DataStage designer. But that isn't the case with the flow designer, you have to...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0

DFD Hierachical Stage should be able to read data from the data stream

In DFD, no string set can be selected in the Hierachical Stage under Assembly Editor - 2. XML_Parser. Only a single XML file can be selected here. In DataStage Designer, however, this functionality of the Hierachical Stage is available with the As...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release