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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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Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Pipelines in Next Gen DataStage requires compilation in a protected environment ( Production environment )

Next Gen DataStage: At present, pipelines require compilation in a protected environment (Production). This process updates the last modified date on the log, which raises concerns about tracking changes and identifying what modifications were int...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Provide Alerts on Long running Jobs based on the historic runs

Can we add a feature to alert DataStage batch administrator based on the history of long running jobs.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Make it easier to find out which lookup reference link has duplicates

If you have a flow with a lookupstage with several lookup links and one of those has duplicates on the key, then you get a warning message with which you can find out which stage caused the warning, but unfortunately not which link. We have flows ...
8 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...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 3

Error during importing isx file which contain linkage between custom attributes and datastage job stages

Hello, By using istool.sh for importing datastage jobs(isx format) an error encountered .The isx file contains the new custom attribute linked to a job stage. We opened for this topic a PMR -> TS004118355 and IBM support colleagues suggeste...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ELT on Spark (Cloudera + Databricks)

Numerous customers are using Talend Big Data (ETL tool converting design in Spark code to run on Hadoop clusters). Talend recently raised their price and many customers are evaluating competition. There are many opportunities for Datastage but any...
8 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

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.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

metrix repository and asset indexing for Db2

We have the following situation: The customer uses DataStage NG on Cloud Pak for Data 5.1.x. The customer is looking for a way to enable the metrics repository and asset indexing for DataStage. However, DataStage currently only supports PostgreSQL...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Under review