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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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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.

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DataStage

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dsjob command provides -logpurging option.

When the customer runs many instances of a multi-instance job at the same time, the auto purging process sometimes removes wrong entries in the RT_STATUS file unexpectedly. This behavior causes a serious result, because dsjob with -jobinfo can not...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

HA is not supported for the namenode failover using File Connector

Unfortunately, HA is not supported for the namenode failover. This is the limitation of the WebHDFS and the connector does not have a to work around that.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions higher than 11 (i.e.12,13)

According to the IBM, the following document is available online in regards to DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions, it only has until SLES Version 11: http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compa...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support Gateway access to Salesforce from DataStage

Currently we are using DataPower as gateway between DataStage and Salesforce, but we have issue reported on the SR. It is considered that issue is related with response message rewriting so we want solution without rewriting the message.Our expect...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Information server client tier on Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).

Allow InfoSphere Information server client tier to run on Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DecimalToString() function results differ when balanced optimization for Oracle is applied

We want to transform Decimal(38,10) into VarChar. DecimalToString() function transforms our decimals into string and they also get padded left and right with zeroes, which is default behavior of that function. However, when that job is optimized u...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Oracle balanced optimization doesn't support timestamp data type with microseconds

Our business requirement is to store date fields as timestamp with microsecond precision. Balanced optimization for Oracle is not able to optimize transformer stage that contains date literals with this precision. IBM engineering confirmed that th...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Transposing color background black and letters white in DS designer.

There is no built-in feature to allow for transposed colors (white letters on a background) in any of the thick clients.This not considered a defect, and there is no patch for this.Allowing custom color support would be considered a new feature.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Performance Enhancements to the DataStage Siebel BCPX Component

System: DataStage Siebel BCPX Component Actor: Users requiring vastly improved performance in retrieving data from Siebel tables. DataStage will be used to extract data, components and relationships using the DataStage Siebel BCPX Component. Descr...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

disabling "Import from File" option in the DataStage Administrator client

users under Developers role are able to see and perform "Import from File" option in the DataStage Administrator client.. i I have opened the PMR and support suggested to open RFE if non-DataStage administrators are able to access the Datastage ad...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration