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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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Enable the setting of non key partitioning of a link on the canvas via right click

Currently when Setting the partitioning of a link you have to go inside a stage to the Input and Partitioning Tab, which e.g. in case of the transformer or lookup stages takes 4 clicks to get there (the shortcut via right click on the stage and se...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Data flow cycle" in Parallel Jobs

Currently "Data flow cycle" are not allowed in DataStage PX as described in the error message IIS-DSEE-TFSR-00035. This maybe is correct for most cases to prevent wrong design, but it would be very usefull when working with parent-child hierarchie...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support for functionality to retrieve job logs via REST API

Currently the DataStage Flow Designer REST API does not have a function to retrieve logs upon job completion. We would like to see such functionality added, similar to the DSJOB -logsum and -logdetail option. Thank you!
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Datastage Debugger - Add more funcationality

Add more functionality to the debugger such as:- Keyboard shortcuts to the menu items (Step to next link, step to next row)- Continue on break point for the next Nth number of rows- Stop at break point if watched column ever has specified value - ...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Migration Tool Oracle to DB2

Transform Connector Migration Tool to transform Oracle Connector to DB2 Connector
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Make a FastTrack a tool suitable for designing and documenting ETL mapping

The InfoSphere tool suite is missing a piece.It is a great tool to govern you data warehouse using IGC with the business glossary, data lineage viewer among the highlights and it is a great tool to create the ETL flows in. What about the inbetween...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make designer handle large screen

Please make DataStage Designer able to support large Screen The current resolution is not satisfying.See : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR33780
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Wait For File stage - timer as a parameter

When specifying a time out for the wait for file stage, it'd be nice if this value could be passed in as a parameter. Also it'd be nice to have it not log a warning in the logs when the stage does timeout if you've drawn a link with the trigger co...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Adding support for Oracle12c in IIS 8.5

Requesting DataStage 8.5 fix pack 3 version to be certified to connect to 12c version of Oracle databases.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Align CMT tool version to client version

* Problem (PMR # 13716,661,706) :In a Multi-Client installation, the most recent version of IS Client is breaking the Connector Migration Tool functionalityof earlier versions, because Multi-Client Manager is not switching together with the Client...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration