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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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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.

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Automatic directory creation on Node managers

We have IS 11.5.0.1 installed on Hadoop HDP 2.4.Customer had to inform their hadoop admin team to create .../InformationServer directory and ISProject directory on Node Managers. Customer is using non default IS Project path ,Every time they are c...
about 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Windows 10 compatibility for Data Integration and Data Quality

Boston College is providing Windows 10 Laptop to Information Server Client users. We recently observed that Windows 10 client is not compatible with Data Integration Client and Data Quality Clients
about 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Surrogate Key Reset after failure of parallel DataStage job as state file is left as Truncated.

If a job fails at the while the parallel engine transformer function NextSurrogateKey() is updating the key state file,it is possible that the state file will be left in a truncated state. To a later job, the TRUNCATED state file looks just a NEW ...
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Synchronizing two head nodes in grid environment

In order for Walmart to run their Grids, 24x7x365 the are implementing multiple head nodes for the same grid. That way if a 6 hour patch comes in, they can take one head node down, patch it, bring it up, and then do the other. In all they lose onl...
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

iSeries support DB2 UDB API stage DataStage 11.5

We would like the DB2 UDB API stage to be certified for use against the iSeries database on DataStage 11.5 to allow for a gradual migration of the existing jobs using the DB2 UDB API stage to the DB2 connector
over 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Balanced Optimization support/ELT/Push-down support for snowflake

Push-down optimization through InfoSphere DataStage Balanced Optimization features should be extended to include cloud native database like Snowflake.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Import a DataStage job into a different environment on a different server (Git integration)

Currently, the script dfdGitCli.sh doesn't allow a job to be imported into a slightly different project name on a different server, e.g. from project_dev on erads11.ci.datastage.com to project_tst on erads12.ci.datastage.com. Given that our work f...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Project specific GIT repository in GIT Setup server TAB of Dataflow Designer tool

Summary of Observation: We do have different projects in our datastage application. Each project is having its own GIT repository in Bit bucket & Facing 2 different functionalities missing in DFD tool. Scenario -1: As per our GIT repository se...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Remove need for plain text password when installing patches.

installUpdates command currently requires you to pass user credentials as plain text on command line.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

HL7 parser/creator/connector

no solution yet
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Future consideration