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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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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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NodeAgent process suspends CATALOG DCS DATABASE in DB2 CLI

Product: InfoSphere DataStage 11.5 OS: Linux Middleware: DB2 V11.1 When the customer tried to create catalogs with CATALOG DCS DATABASE in DB2 CLI. the command froze. After investigation, the process of NodeAgent causeed the freeze. As a...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing names of docker images for different instances

Information from Case numbers: TS002979327 and TS002990656 We are testing datastage 11.7.1 (kubernetes version) In case# TS002979327, following was recommended: ----- 2) you needed to modify your /etc/hosts file on your client machine wit...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support Automatically Convert Numeric SQL Type(to Decimal or etc) for File Connector Stage to Parquet Format

Problem : We need to migrate data from SQL Server to Parquet Format. One of the data type in the SQL Server is Numeric type. We will run the migration job process using RCP. Workaround : 1. We need to change data type to another type, but ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

enabled "compileDSJob", "runDSJob" for DS-Developer-roles

"compileDSJob", "runDSJob" are currently enabled for DS-Admin-user-roles only, so this is working as designed for now. please enable APIs for DS-Developer-roles (like DS-Admin-roles)
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Developers need Administrator Privileges on Datastage to setup Bitbucket Access

We should have the capability for developers with their correct roles to be able to setup access to Bitbucket or GitHub. This creates an issue as we now have to give all developers elevated access to our development lanes which can cause issues wi...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Cloned repository path does not work every time I log in and log out of Data Flow Designer

Everytime I logout of Flow designer and when I log back in, I am unable to check my code into an already configured Cloned repository path accessible to Information Server. It requests to configure a new path.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

Turn off .json file creation and check-in into Bitbucket

When the DS job is checked into Bitbucket, then along with the .isx file, a .json file also gets checked into Bitbucket. There is no value add here for the .json file and we cannot ignore all .json files since we might have a .json file for a java...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support for multi-byte string in the "View data" fnction

"View data" in Oracle Connector failed with error "ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated" when multi-byte string is included in the column referred, although the job execution succeeded.This restriction reduces usability of the product, as...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Datastage support for MSSQL server 2017 and 2019

Keep latest releases up to date and in line with the market
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Datastage Lock job

Hello We think that it will be a great addition to have the way to lock a job whitout being in the designer. Regards
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists