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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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DataStage

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SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Ability to pass query params in SAP Odata Stage

Currently Odata stage is able to connect to a SAP system and select a service or table but there is no way we are able to pass any parameters to extract only a limited set of data
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Parameter support when creating standalone database connection assets

When creating a Database connection I would like to use parameters for the connection details. This is currently possible when using flow connection in job but we have a hundreds of job that are allready using existing connection created through i...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable Custom SQL for AWS Redshift connector

Problem statement: For all our ETL transformations across NYL, we use custom SQL to extract the data. Workaround in POC: We are using JDBC connector to read data from Redshift Database Benefits/values: Using native redshift connector wi...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 3

MDM Connector for CP4D-DataStage

MDM connector will use API calls that will be directly integrated with MDM server resulting in better performance when processing large data volume. Alternate method for MDM connector is to use web service call which involves xml parsing or using ...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow compiled versions of a flow/job to be migrated to a target DataStage Environment in NextGen

After a flow/job is moved from QA to PROD, it must currently be recompiled to work. This is not allowed in most production environments as it forces a change in the target environment.
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Report functionality for annual review of users within projects that are within ldap groups ou=Datastage

I have attached the below steps it takes for me to get a file of users from a certain project within datastage. I'd love it if there was a report feature to grab these details without all the clicks and file saving. Please look over the document a...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

git Repository & DataStage

Actually, git integration does only work for projects including Notebooks, but not DataStage flows. It is even worse: when creating project with git integration, it is not longer possible to add DataStage flows AT ALL! Only projects w/o git integr...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

Enable developers to manage SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW clients

Request to make users with Developer role possible to manage (add/modify/remove) SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW client.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration