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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.

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DataStage

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Users and groups to control file system issue

Customer have went with linux users and groups to Control file system level access and while it gives us what we want, it does cause some components of the engine to crash due to file permission issues where the dsadm group doesn't have privileges...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage support for Oracle editionable objects

Oracle editionable objects is not something that has been incorporated into Information Server . However we have a urgent need to incorporate editionable objects into our project and would like datastage to support this feature.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Datastage 11.5 supports SAP products(SCM7.0.1 & SCM7.0.3)

IBM China support team mentioned “The SAP versions officially tested and supported are listed in the SPCR doc (System Requirements), linked from the Release Noteshttps://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/soft...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Sequence loop should stop when Director stop request issued

Need to be able to stop a DataStage sequence job loop in response to a job Stop request.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to schedule job running at higher granularity than a day

As a Job administrator, I would like to schedule jobs running more frequently within a day, maybe running every hour.Currently, Director allows a job to be scheduled to run twice a day. To allow the jobs to run every hour, we have to create 12 sch...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automate migration of DataStage job with Enterprise Data Warehouse as the target to Hadoop

Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) optimization has been observed as the most common use case for data lake initiatives. Off loading EDW data into Hadoop provides a highly cost-efficient environment with optimal performance, scalability and flexibili...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Get and read file from http(s) server from datastage

We have stage to retrieve and read file from ftp servers, so we should have the same functionality from http(s) servers.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Job name change while migrating jobs from DataStage to ClearCase

We are integrating Infosphere DataStage 11.5 with ClearCase 8.0.1 and it was successful but when we are migrating DataStage jobs to ClearCase VOB job names are not getting replicated as it is instead of that jobs are added with an extension. Examp...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Connect from Datastage to Salesforce using SAML Transaction (Federated Authentication)

We are looking for an ability in Salesforce Connector Stage to Connect from Datastage to Salesforce using SAML Transaction (Federated Authentication). Background: How Federated Authentication Works- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) provid...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support Japanese character for column name, job name, stage name and routine name

DataStage supports "alphabetic character" for column name. But my customer want to use Japanese(Kanji) for column name because they now use Japanese for column name in host system and MS SQL Server system. And they want to keep "Rules for name def...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration