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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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Connectivity

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Salesforce select only fields for the object. Do not automatically bring back all fields in the child relationships.

This is about the DataStage Salesforce Connector. When building the Salesforce Connector Stage by importing the objects fields from Salesforce using the "Browse Objects" function . A list of tables in Salesforce will be presented. One can click th...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Include 'NTLM' as an authentication method in DataStage Hierarchical stage

We have an important project that needs to source the data from the SharePoint page. The default authentication method in our SharePoint farm is 'NTLM' which is not supported by Hierarchical stage. It's impossible to enable the other method on our...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

DataStage Hierarchical stage Rest add Google service account auth.

The Hierarchical stage provides many authentication options including OAuth bearer token. This is required for Google rest calls but expires and must be regenerated. Suggestion is to allow the Google service account json file to be added as an aut...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Store Procedure does not support External Authentication in IBM datastage

Store Procedure stage does not support External Authentication in IBM datastage where as Oracle connector supports External authentication. IBM Case#TS003883130
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Oracle connector : support of SDO_GEOMETRY data types

we are not able to insert GEOMAP data to oracle DB. We opened case with IBM #TS003869041 and they informed us that SDO_GEOMETRY is not a supported Oracle data type target for DataStage and asked us to open RFE.
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

IMPALA ODBC/JDBC - LOGON with LDAP user when KERBEROS is Activated

As mentioned on IBM Case Number TS003596483, we need a way to connect IMPALA ODBC/JDBC using LDAP when KERBEROS is activated on Cluster. On ODBC, using AuthenticationMethod=-1 and AuthenticationMethod=0 it shows "socket closed" error. Using Authen...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

DataStage Oracle/ODBC connector stage performance

We have IBM InfoSphere Platform and thousands of DataStage Jobs. Lot of these jobs use Oracle and ODBC connector Stage to connect to Oracle DBaaS database. These stages are running queries against system tables frequently and causing performance d...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

DataStage supporting writing data to GCP GCS with CMEK

DataStage (11.7.1) Google Cloud Storage (GCS) connector failed to write data into GCS, not supporting Customer Managed Encryption Key (CMEK). We in HSBC use CMEK in all components in GCP. If this is enabled, we can use GCS with DataStage directly....
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Support for endpoints in S3 connector

We need to write files into our company amazon s3 bucket with Datastage 11.5.0.2. We cannot tune the S3 Connector component with our specific endpoint, as we could using "endpoint" parameter with aws cli.
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

DataDirect jdbc driver for mongodb support balanced string

Then this idea stems from the fact that the customer wanted to connect to mongodb through our jdbc driver, however their mongodb team provided him with a balanced string with a replicaset parameter that allows you to replicate data on the affected...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration