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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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Change communication from DS client to SERVER

See TS002849280. The problem in this case is that encrypted values are sent to the client. Since the client also has the key to decrypt those values, the client basically receives in plaintext the passwords that are set to connect to those datab...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide administrative control; for user access to Information Analyzer 'Discover' function

Function accessible via Information Analyzer: Connections> Discover Assets Connections> Browse> Actions> DiscoverCurrently access can only be controlled through IMAM roles. IA ‘Discover Assets’ provides abilities not understood by typi...
over 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

can we make file connector to read file only in directory with name matched to the wildcard pattern

The File connector is unable to read expected partitions data : Expected to read data from all partitions excluding part_num=0, but it is reading data from part_num=1, part_num=10, part_num=11, part_num=12 and part_num=2 only. Expected Format as p...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Allow escaping of data class column regex expressions

Current SQL Server environment does not allow multi-byte unicode characters. When IA/IGC data classes are installed out of the box, the multibyte characters in the regex are lost and replaced by question marks. This causes the column analysis to c...
over 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

IIS 11.7.1 DataStage Server DB2 External Table Support

Due to: potential manual efforts involved with retesting PX jobs post JR61510 patch and, volume of Server jobs having TWT logic in user-defined SQL statements Stage with DB2 connector using "Write mode=User-define SQL", "Direct Insert Propert...
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Generate controlled number of rowgroups in parquet file

While creating a parquet file, datastage doesn't allow the user/developer to control the number rowgroups to be created per file. We have received following feedback and suggestion from the PMR support - "The Parquet Parser / Builder implementati...
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Unstructure Data Stage

While loading data from Datastage to excel using the Unstructure Data stage we want to control on the direction of the loaded data into the excel spreadsheet.
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Support SQL Server with SSL enabled XMeta repository in IS 11.7.1

Support SQL Server with SSL enabled XMeta repository in IS 11.7.1
almost 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Planned for future release

Salesforce connectivity - Datastage 11.5 API 47

No description provided
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

RTC 6.0.6 connectivity with Infosphere Information server v 11.7

We want to maintain datastage code in Rational Team Concert by establishing a connection between Information server manager and RTC.
about 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration