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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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Output error message from Salesforce into job log

We encountered the error on bulk load with Salesforce, but there is less details output to log file (see attached, error log from job log). We identified that this is caused by Salesforce error below, but the exception message is not output to job...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 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).
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 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...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Data Flow Designer GitHub/BitBucket Integration

We are using bitbucket through command line for all our code migration activities. We were hoping to see Data Flow Designer provide a UI based integration with BitBucket and GitHub. However the gap is that for the connectivity to work, GIT needs s...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Docment for integrating Infosphere DataStage 11.3 with Oracle wallet (Oracle 12c)

Instructions to setup integration between Infosphere DataStage 11.3 and Oracle Wallet (Oracle 12c)
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

read text files with carriage returns in parallel jobs

PARALLEL job's Sequential File Stage throws an error reading a .csv file that contains a carriage return inside a char/varchar field. There is no option to read the data within a parallel job. SERVER job's Sequential File Stage has the column opti...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support Oracle Dataguard for InfoSphere DataStage

For HA Database Oracle Dataguard is used in Airbus. DataStage shall support Oracle Dataguard for source, target databases and the meta repository
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add a Merge Key Columns option to the Full Outer Join

When doing a Full Outer Join in the Join Stage, you will receive two Sets of Key Columns in the Output named leftRec_Keycolumnname and rightRec_Keycolumnname, for which you then have to do something like NullToValue(leftRec_Keycolumnname,rightRec_...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration