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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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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

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

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

Importing metadata via JDBC Data Connection should show accurate db_name

When discovering assets in 11.7.1, using a JDBC data connection, "the database name to use might differ from the actual database name, depending on the JDBC driver. For example, for Db2 you might need to use db2, and for Oracle ibm." This is docum...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Big Data Connector - missing features

No description provided
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Netezza Connector - TWT distribution key

NZ Connector should alter the session to perform hash join instead of merge join during load data when using a TWT table.
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Catalog Read access translates to read access to data AND metadata

This related to public and private connections. access to metadata in a catalog can not be managed separately from access to the actual data. As soon as somebody has been granted read access to a catalog or an asset in a catalog they automaticall...
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Continue to Support Datastage DB2 Connector for DB2 for i v7.3+

Currently the InfoSphere Information Server 11.5 Datastage DB2 Connector doesn't support a supported version of DB2 for i. Also include support for Surrogate Key Generator Stage for DB2 supports DB2 for i v7.3+ Business Impact for IBM: If DB2 for...
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered