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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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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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DataStage - File Connector - Add support of NULL type when reading PARQUET file

We use DataStage for most of the ETL jobs. We want to read PARQUET file (which contains nullable columns) and do further processing on it. But File Connector does not support NULL type when reading PARQUET file.
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Netezza Connector - Grooming Support

Add an Option to support the grooming a Netezza table directly from the connector after the transaction is successful completed.
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Kerberos support for JDBC Gateway to Greenplum

We use the JDBC Gateway to communicate outbound from the mainframe to distributed Greenplum. Currently only userid/password is supported. We have had to get an temporary exception in order to implement this. UYserid/passowrd voiolates our company ...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

JGate log file cleanup

We need a way to limit the number of log files that JGate will create.
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Twitter Connector

Connector which allows to access twitter data/APIs
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

IBM InfoSphere Information Server Pack for SAP Applications add Delta Extract Stage for SAP CRM

Add Delta Extract Stage also for SAP CRM.
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Exploit RMF online VSAM dataset

We would like the IDAA Loader to be able to exploit RMF online VSAM datasets like with other SMF records i.e. SMF type 70. This way we could easily analyze LPAR performance from the last hours in shorter intervals than from SMF records. A similar ...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Fileconnector and Avro

File Connector to generate its own Avro schema, and at run time. Anything that moves us closer to that, and further away from a) hand coding Avro schemas b) physically copying them to the edge node, would probably be step in the right direction
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Allow for a project view in Studio that only shows maps for a specific user and interfaces with both SCM and DVM servers.

The current Server tab shows all maps for a given DVM subsystem. The main premise of this Aha is that developers typically have a view within an IDE that contains just their project code (linked to their software configuration management system). ...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Validate SQL should simply validate whether the SQL is valid to execute

Currently, while in editing SQL in DVM Studio, you can highlight the SQL and choose "Validate SQL". This option will run the same logic used when creating a view and flag, for example, duplicate column names as an error. In this case the flagged S...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration