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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Improving RapidJobUpdateTool

Hello My company doesn't want to use DB2 and Oracle anymore, we are moving to PGS. We have a lot a datastage jobs using those DBMS. I would like to automatise the swicth from a DB2 stage to an ODBC one but RapidJobUpdateTool doesn't have ODBC in t...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Data flow Designer Allows only changed or new jobs to be published to git repository

Currently Data flow designer allows same version of job to be published to git multiple times which results redundant versions in git repository. DFD should only allow git publish if a job is changed or it's a new job
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

On ETL Project, the feature to see the list of jobs which refer to the specific table is required.

About ETL Project, the feature to see the list of jobs which refer to the specific table is required. Because the jobs which will be affected by changing table definision on the data source should be identified easily.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 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
over 10 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 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

During the assessment it was observed that there was Cleartext transmission of sensitive information like username and password in the application.

FixIt is recommended to configure servers to use encrypted channels for communication by implementing TLS.It is also recommended to encrypt the passwords , It is recommended to not send any sensitive information in plain text. It should be either ...
over 3 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...
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add a "filter expression" to a ServiceNow configuration in MettleCI Workbench

MettleCI Workbench uses ServiceNow's GET /now/table/{tableName} endpoint (and similarly for other WIM systems) to search for issues. The actual REST call performed is generated based on the ServiceNow IssueManagement configuration and search terms...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

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...
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

No Email Notification is sent to the group email when the Pipeline run has been completed wherein individual email notifications are sent.

Notifications(email or in notification area) are not working when groups are assigned to the projects, While configuring SMTP, groups are not allowed to select. No email notifications sent to the group/group users email when the Pipeline run has b...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration