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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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DataStage

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Windows Services Account

please allow the services installed by IBM for DataStage on a Windows server to use an Active Directory account instead of a local account.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Information Server 11.5 support for Oracle 12R2 (12.2.1)

Oracles latest release 12R2 is unsupported by IBM. This request is for a jdbc driver that is compatible with 12R2.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Create Schema Based on Shared Container Links

When columns of the Shared Container links do not match the metadata of the stage in the job on mapping it, you should have the option to add the missing columns in the schema.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support of Oracle 12 release 2

Are there any plans to provide patches for 11.5 and 11.3 that would make them compatible with Oracle 12.2? Can we escalate a request for those patches to be created? How quickly could we expect a patch if they will create one for us. If we have ou...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Balanced Optimization support/ELT/Push-down support for snowflake

Push-down optimization through InfoSphere DataStage Balanced Optimization features should be extended to include cloud native database like Snowflake.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Import a DataStage job into a different environment on a different server (Git integration)

Currently, the script dfdGitCli.sh doesn't allow a job to be imported into a slightly different project name on a different server, e.g. from project_dev on erads11.ci.datastage.com to project_tst on erads12.ci.datastage.com. Given that our work f...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Project specific GIT repository in GIT Setup server TAB of Dataflow Designer tool

Summary of Observation: We do have different projects in our datastage application. Each project is having its own GIT repository in Bit bucket & Facing 2 different functionalities missing in DFD tool. Scenario -1: As per our GIT repository se...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Info Server TFS integration with multiple repositories

We would like the ability to integrate with multiple TFS repositories from our DataStage servers.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance slowly changing dimension stage to full bi temporal join

Enhance the functionality of the stage "Slowly changing dimension" to a bi temporal functionality like the time travel feature from DB2. A typical use case in every DWH or data lake project is to store all versions of the data which you get from y...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce Connector - Datastage V11 - API 40

Actually, we can use the api 39 in the salesforce connector and we need to use the 40.0 release.Moreover , the 41.0 release is done in salesforce.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists