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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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DataStage

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Add business terms on DataStage flow

On IGC (11.x) -WKC (4.x) migration projects Clients asks to add business terms on datastage next gen flow but now this feature is not available using DataStage next gen flow on new interface.
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Repository Oracle 23

Hello, When do you plan to support Oracle 23for datastage repository? Thanks regards
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Distributed Transaction

Add stage distributed transaction in palette of IBM Cloud Pack for Data.
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Support of IBM DB2 Data Server Driver Package (instead of DB2 Data Server Client)

Support of the different DB2 Data Server Driver Packages instead/in addition to DB2 Data Server Client. The big advantage is, that the Driver Packages are much smaller and also easier to install. Also they don't need any additional DB2-User.
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Request to implement Auto Map functionality on Output in Hierarchical Stage

I'm using the Hierarchical Data stage to pull data via a REST API and then feed that through a JSON_Parser stage and finally map it to the output columns on the Output tab. I know in the DataStage thick client there was an option to use the Auto M...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 4

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.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

Share WKC Metadata by column with DataStage

(I'll post a second Idea with Watson Studio also) When Data Assets have been documented/Business Metadata has been added, like Description, Business Term and so, this is a great value for Data Engineers. They need this information to build their d...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Please Add Red Hat 9 as the support OS for IBM DataStage 11.7 or the next available version of DataStage

We are currently on DataStage 11.7.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.9 which will be out of support soon. We need to migrate our DataStage installation for Red Hat version 9. We need DataStage 11.7 to support Red Hat 9.
10 months ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release

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 provi...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

datatype uuid in Datastage Greenplum Connector

The database of my source table is Greenplum. The datatype of a field is UUID but this doesn't exists in Datastage. When I import the table definitions of this table then then the SQL type is -11.
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration