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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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DRS Connector and Oracle Connector select only some columns when doing a "view data"

I ask to be able to view only the selected columns (instead of allt he columns) when I use the "view data" functionality with the DRS Connector and Oracle Connector.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SLES 12 and InfoSphere Information Server V11.5

Hello!The compatibility report explains that Suse Linus Enterprise Server 12 isn't supported. But we plan to migrate to the new version of IIS V11.5 in few month. We want to use IIS V11.5 servers and engines on SLES 12.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

IS 11.5 DRS Connector (with ODBC flavor) to support multiple table names

DRS Connector (with ODBC flavor) isnot support multiple table names with the auto generated SQL query.We want to implement this functionality
over 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic File Splitter Stage

I would like a file stage that would dynamically create flat files based on a field or a combination of fields within the input data. By dynamic I mean that if the field being used to determine the split today has 3 unique values then 3 separate f...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Default WLM queue at the sequence level

Add the functionality to set a design-time default WLM queue name at the sequence level.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Addition of the BASIC function DSGetJobQueue

Addition of the BASIC function DSGetJobQueue. There is no way to retrieve the WLM queue of a job at runtime using the DataStage BASIC interface. We can set it with DSSetQueue but retrieval is impossible.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Data Direct ODBC/JDBC driver for redshift

DataStage 11.3.1.1 is trying to connect Amazon RedShift database. We need to have ODBC or JDBC driver installed in production environment. Our preference is to have IBM certified or supported ODBC Driver for linux. Please provide driver either cer...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Is there a way to automate mapping of credentials in IIS Console?

We use LDAP user registry and map our unix password every time it is updated. Is there a way to automate the mapping of credentials in IIS Console? Most of our access issues come from unable to map the new unix password to the IIS Console.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Better and intuitive error messages

Better error message in Parallel jobs Error messages often doesn't give any values for developer e.g TR_lag_record,0: Fatal Error: ~APT_PMPlayer: terminating Player (node1, parallel APT_TransformOperatorImplV0S69_CopyOfJOB_G57_LINDORFF_LAAN_DAG_TR...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow ODBC connector write to HIVE table /or File connector read HIVE table

1) ODBC connector for HIVe allows reading hive tables but doesn't work for writing hive table. It works - only very very slow and not acceptable for Big Data operation ( a few records in minutes). 1a. Additionally, If columns defined in UPPER case...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists