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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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Datastage Super Operator should have Run Now + Stop ability parameterised

In our production Datastage 11.5 environment we submit all of our jobs by using the command line from Linux scripts so that should only be submitted via an external scheduled job. This gives a degree of control over accidental updates to the produ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Functionality already exists

Support for Custom Transformer (Parallel) Routines in DFD

DataStage Flow Designer in 11.7 does not support custom parallel transformer routines. When attempting to compile a job that uses a custom transformer routine from the DataStage Flow Designer interface, compilation fails. This results in a hard de...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

During the assessment it was observed that there was Cleartext transmission of sensitive information like username and password in the application.

FixIt is recommended to configure servers to use encrypted channels for communication by implementing TLS.It is also recommended to encrypt the passwords , It is recommended to not send any sensitive information in plain text. It should be either ...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add a "filter expression" to a ServiceNow configuration in MettleCI Workbench

MettleCI Workbench uses ServiceNow's GET /now/table/{tableName} endpoint (and similarly for other WIM systems) to search for issues. The actual REST call performed is generated based on the ServiceNow IssueManagement configuration and search terms...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

No Email Notification is sent to the group email when the Pipeline run has been completed wherein individual email notifications are sent.

Notifications(email or in notification area) are not working when groups are assigned to the projects, While configuring SMTP, groups are not allowed to select. No email notifications sent to the group/group users email when the Pipeline run has b...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of security managament in Datastage

Currently, Datastage is offering different roles: DataStage Operator, DataStage Super Operator, ...(full list available here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZJPZ_11.5.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.found.admin.common.doc/topics/c_wdisad_WebSp...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Allow DataStage to fully support kerberos authentication , even for the installation.

We have new servers and only kerberos authentication is allowed. We need to install DataStage on the new server.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Not able to generate user list report from Datastage version (11.7.1.1)

We are facing issue while generate user list report from IBM Information Admin console. In Our environment all user id's are bind with AD authentication.we select all required option to download the correct DataStage user list report and we get wr...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support Gateway access to Salesforce from DataStage

Currently we are using DataPower as gateway between DataStage and Salesforce, but we have issue reported on the SR. It is considered that issue is related with response message rewriting so we want solution without rewriting the message.Our expect...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Performance Enhancements to the DataStage Siebel BCPX Component

System: DataStage Siebel BCPX Component Actor: Users requiring vastly improved performance in retrieving data from Siebel tables. DataStage will be used to extract data, components and relationships using the DataStage Siebel BCPX Component. Descr...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration