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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Connectivity

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Google BQ connector to run SQL with project id

Currently, the BQ connector doesn't allow user to select data from other projects of the user's default project. And there is no where to choose project id. We are using multiple projects on GCP, and some projects own data, but some projects only ...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Infosphere Datastage 11.7 Delete then Insert" option not avilable with Teradata connector when RCP enabled

We are using the teradata connector to "Delete then Insert" option and we dont see the key the option to specify the key to delete the records. we have enabled our RCP since this will be common job used by different process. We are migrating from ...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Kafka connector json message with key value

The kafka connector stage doesn’t support the key values for message write in kafka.
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Kafka connector, enable write message with key value

The kafka connector stage don’t support the key values for message write in kafka.
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Test and provide documentation to provide support for more recent Parquet file formats.

The current Parquet/Orc file instructions provide support for Parquet 1.9.0, which is now 3.5 years old. We have vendors who want to use Parquet to feed their big data lakes, and we are struggling to support them with this old format, even in an i...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Add easier support for Parquet/Orc to Datastage 11.7

Currently, in order to enable support for Parquet/Orc formats, customers must download 23 jar files with little to no direction on where to get them, then create 2 classpaths manually in environments. The well-intentioned current instructions to d...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

DataStage Google Big Query Connector to use encrypted credential json file

Macy's is working on moving all our DataWare house to Google BQ. Currently, we have BQ connector on DataStage 11.7.1, but we can only connect to BQ using a flat pure json credential file. According to the policy of our company, flat file cannot be...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Application Continuity for Data Stage - Oracle DB 19c

The Oracle 12.2 version has a feature called 'Application Continuity'. Application Continuity is used to improve the user experience when handling both unplanned outages and planned maintenance. It masks outages from end users and applications by ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 Delivered

Connectivity and Profiling for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2

Data Scientists and Quality Analysts needs to profile data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2. We are able to connect to ADLS Gen2 via DataStage using the latest connectors, and import the metadata via IMAM. However, profiling from Info Analyzer and...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Connectivity for Oracle 19c (12.2.0.3)

Our Organization is updating all the oracle DB instances to 19c and the information server is unable to support the connection to 19c. We would like to know regarding the connectivity from Information server 11.7.1 to oracle 19c as our developers ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 13 Delivered