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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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DataStage server jobs are failing due to no ODBC connector support to load data into Snowflake database

Currently, we have several DataStage server jobs designed to solve a specific problem and running fine to extract data sourcing from flat files & SQL servers and targeting to Netezza database. Now we are in the process of migrating the on-prem...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Add SQLTables, SQLColumns, SQLStatistics, SQLSpecialColumns to ODBC API to connect MS Access ODBC

Issue with importing table definition from MS Access DB using Sequelink driver. Receiving unsupported functions on "SQLPrimaryKeys & SQLForeignKeys". Per technote we are trying to access Access DB using Sequelink tool DataStage ODBC drivers fo...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Support retrieval of data from IMS Secondary Index using DVM IMS Direct

We have in-house applications that stores data in an IMS Secondary Index database. The application would like to use DVM to retrieve data from their IMS INDEX DB. Currently in DVM V1.1.0 using IMS-Direct on an IMS Index is not supported. Applicati...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

DataStage et TERADATA /TIME ZONE

Notre problème : nous travaillons sur Teradata 14 / 15 et nous utilisons le Temporal Data Nous avons un sérieux problème de typage de données avec les versions DataStage 11.3.1.2 et 11.5. Nos Périodes Teradata sont exprimées en TimeStamp de ...
over 10 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Server Trace profile values should be tied to a specific subsystem

While in the ISPF Server Trace, I can set profile values in order to limit the number of records being viewed. These profiles should be specific to the subsystem that I am currently connected to instead of a global variable that applies to the ISP...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Ability to use Surrogate Key Generator in DataStage for Netezza DBMS

We are trying to use the balanced optimizer feature in DataStage 9.1 to rewrite the ETL logic in SQL that runs on the Netezza appliance instead of the DataStage server. We are looking for a way to generate the surrogate keys that works in DataStag...
over 10 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

CP4D needs to support connecting with the DataStax drivers that are needed in order to provide a fully functional hybrid solution

In order for CP4D to support a fully functional hybrid solution with DataStax, CP4D needs to support connecting with the same drivers DataStax supports. Currently these drivers are: DataStax ODBC Driver for Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

GPCC does not support reject links.

Per discussion with Emily White, IBM Lab Advocate to DTCC: there is no reject link capability in the Greenplum Connector. Our projects are impacted with laborious research through the logs and time stake finding out the exact reason for job error....
over 10 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Support for MongoDB version 4.x

Currently there is ODBC drivers for older versions of MongoDB but not for the latest version
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for a procedural language within DVM

Currently all logic within DVM is encapsulated with the SQL statements. This limits the amount of logic that can be handled within DVM and forces us to potentially make multiple distributed calls to DVM to complete one unit of work. By adding (or ...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration