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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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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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XMETA repository on EXADATA platform (Oracle 12c on multitenant container database (CDB)

Oracle 12c Metadata Repository database creation fails if the database is a CDB database
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Datastage Connect to Apache Kudu

Apache Kudu has the capability of SQL insert and update, and also support Spark RDD. It's much better than Hive and Impala, which no update is possible. If Datastage and Cognos support connection to Kudu as other databases, it would be great.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

urls are typically seen after a graphical wizard installation of Information Server do not appear to be available for a sile

urls are typically seen after a graphical wizard installation of Information Server do not appear to be available for a silent install in 11.5 version.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Information Service Director Maintenance mode

I have multiple Information Server engine tiers. I have enabled load balancing from the ISD console to take advantage of the engines. I need a way to gracefully stop one engine for maintenance, such that the in-flight transaction is processed, and...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

VMOTION Support for DataStage.

DTCC environments are built on ESXi hosts - on top of these virtual DataStage machine hosts are configured. Purpose of Virtual set up and VMOTION is DEFEATED.We impact other VM's related to other application in same ESXi's Per IBM Todd Maske: VMOT...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Utility for multiple job compile at server level

Hi Team, I'm looking for a Utility at server level for multiple job compile. I want to know whether DataStage have any utility for mutilple job compile at server level? I know that we have dscc.exe at client level to perform compilation! I want th...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Record level Information Required in DSODB Database

We are pulling Job level information from DSODB and looking for Record level Information but we do not see the required information. Please let us know how to pull the following: 1. Average_Record_Length 2. Input_Volume_In_Bytes 3. Output_Volume_I...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage

Using Datastage 11.5.0.1 "File Connector Stage", We ask to implement the mapping from an input field defined as Decimal (17,2) to a target avro field defined as "type":["bytes","null"],"logicalType":"decimal","precision":"17","scale":"2" into the ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

File Connector running on Windows does not support HDFS file formats supported under Linux

Running Data Engine on a Windows 64-bit environment and want to use File Connector to access AVRO files. The Linux version of the software supports this as of 11.5 FP1. If the data engine is installed on Windows, this functionality isn't availabil...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Designer Client crashes when attempting to find a stage type used in Jobs

The Designer Client crashes when we are attempting to query a specific stage used in the jobs and output in XML format
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration