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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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Changes to support automated General Diagnostic Health Checks

System: Applies to the complete InfoSphere Product FamilyActor: System Administrator We need to be able to automate health checks, but the current ISALite has two limitations that would need to be fixed:1) You cannot encrypt passwords as input whe...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Certification of Information server 11.5 to release Cloudera CDH 5.8

Due to critical issues found in the current release (CDH 5.5) we require support of Information Server 11.5 to release CDH 5.8. Please provide us an estimation regarding the availability of this certification in order for us to establish an implem...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

UNIX ODBC Support tools

Information Server on UNIX ODBC Support tools (in /Server/branded_odbc/IBM_Tools/ ) have various problems :- capture_env.ksh : Doesn't work when Information Server Engine administrator is chosen as different user than from "dsadm"- odbc_version.sh...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automatic directory creation on Node managers

We have IS 11.5.0.1 installed on Hadoop HDP 2.4.Customer had to inform their hadoop admin team to create .../InformationServer directory and ISProject directory on Node Managers. Customer is using non default IS Project path ,Every time they are c...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Windows 10 compatibility for Data Integration and Data Quality

Boston College is providing Windows 10 Laptop to Information Server Client users. We recently observed that Windows 10 client is not compatible with Data Integration Client and Data Quality Clients
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Godala

We have a single record in a file with word count 456331887 wc -c mdmn_GCRM_20180505004107.xml 456331887 I specified $APT_DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_BLOCK_SIZE=500000000 but max value of APT_DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_BLOCK_SIZE is 268435456.due to this i ...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

Surrogate Key Reset after failure of parallel DataStage job as state file is left as Truncated.

If a job fails at the while the parallel engine transformer function NextSurrogateKey() is updating the key state file,it is possible that the state file will be left in a truncated state. To a later job, the TRUNCATED state file looks just a NEW ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Synchronizing two head nodes in grid environment

In order for Walmart to run their Grids, 24x7x365 the are implementing multiple head nodes for the same grid. That way if a 6 hour patch comes in, they can take one head node down, patch it, bring it up, and then do the other. In all they lose onl...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced mathematical functions for larger data types

Some Mathematical functions accept dfloat as input but in output are restricted to int32. These functions need to be expanded to be able to return int64 values
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

iSeries support DB2 UDB API stage DataStage 11.5

We would like the DB2 UDB API stage to be certified for use against the iSeries database on DataStage 11.5 to allow for a gradual migration of the existing jobs using the DB2 UDB API stage to the DB2 connector
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration