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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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Performing an update of InfoSphere Information Server fix corrupts Datastage projects

"At Banco Popular client, the fix pack for IBM InfoSphere Information Server Version 11.7 had to be installed. However, during the installation, a backup was created, which takes the client 3 days. During the case response period, it was found tha...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add Table Action Truncate for BigQuery Connector

On CP4D DataStage NextGen the table actions available for BigQuery connector currently are Append and Replace. According official docs: Method Description Append Append creates the table if the table doesn’t exist. If the table already exists, no ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Excel file format should be supported as source data in the ETL project.

Excel file format should be supported as source data in the ETL project.
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Update iisenc / encrypt.sh output to have per-installation private secret

I was horrified to be told that IBM Support has the capability to decrypt "encrypted" password values in the ISX file we were asked to provide. This should be impossible in a secure system. Given that it is possible to move encrypted values betwee...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need support for Oracle Linux 8

MMC policy is to use Oracle Linux instead of RHEL.
11 months ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

HASH function

Currently the HASH function is implemented as a "User Defined Function" within DataStage. This functionality was developed as-is so it's not working when trying to optimize the job with BalOpt. DataStage development team took the Hash code provid...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage would be able to authenticate using Azure active directory using Oauth2

Currently there is no option to use the password less authentication Oauth while connecting to Azure platform. the central team over here is preffering to have Oauth. Request you to consider this as a work request.
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Add the function "managing message handlers" in CP4D UI

We would like to implement any jobs that branches on warning or not.But we can't implement this jobs, because the specific Stage in parallel jobs output trivial warning. For example, the Funnel Stage always output following warning when two tables...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Unable to read SQL stements from file using Goole BigQuery Connector stage.

Need to be able to read SQL stements from file using Goole BigQuery Connector stage.
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted