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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:


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,


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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,

  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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DataStage

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Share WKC Metadata by column with DataStage

(I'll post a second Idea with Watson Studio also) When Data Assets have been documented/Business Metadata has been added, like Description, Business Term and so, this is a great value for Data Engineers. They need this information to build their d...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DataStage Flow Designer Integration with Git

We have started using Git for maintaining our DataStage codebase. We're able to publish/load the jobs to/from Git repo successfully. However, if we want to publish multiple jobs to the Git repository at once, current version of DataStage Flow Desi...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

When using WHERE clause in Filter stage, user should set fields/columns manually but any assist functions such as recommended fields/columns listed automatically implemented.

In current ETL design, user should set fields/columns input manually when they want to set WHERE clause in Filter stage. One of our customer requests to function enhancement so that users can select listed fields/columns that CP4D tool listed. By ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IIS 11.7 Configure the Operations Console to use the ssh program rather than the rsh

Context: IIS on Hadoop is configured by using engine tier on edge node topology. When you run your job on this environment and if you want analyze the performance stats on each worker node then its not available because the communication protocol ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

HOT BACKUP (online) for DataStage Enviroment

We are wondering if there is some solution to do HOT Backup of DataStage environment ( online without necessary to turn on server maintenance mode, turning off active services, etc.). Our platform currently running 24/7? Is there a possibility of ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Request to update document the instruction to upload CSV files via Web browser on Data transform

Update the following document with the instruction how to upload CSV files via Web browser on Data transform. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQNUZ_2.5.0/cpd/access/data-sources.html
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Users can be select schema so as to choose the target tables of ETL connector stage easily.

Currently users should input the table's name so as to select the target table of ETL connector stage. It is very costly for users to input the full name of target tables without any guidelines such as schema information.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Datastage supporting generic API's to an external security provider

Background:GDPR is bringing an eminent need to safely secure sensitive (customer-) data. This is bringing new requirements to the tools that have access to this data. DataStage, due to the functional nature of the tool, is requiring extremely high...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

HA scripts with LSB compliant

We have a built a new HA cluster with redhat pacemaker and trying to create resources with HAScripts provided with the Datastage HAinstallation but the HAScript provided for the WAS & InfoSvrEngine start/stop requires more options such as stat...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration