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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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Fileconnector and Avro

File Connector to generate its own Avro schema, and at run time. Anything that moves us closer to that, and further away from a) hand coding Avro schemas b) physically copying them to the edge node, would probably be step in the right direction
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Info-sphere Connector Stage for Oracle Sales Cloud

IOOF currently using Oracle Sales Cloud CRM and IBM Infosphere Information Server for our data integration needs. Currently there is no way to directly read or write Oracle Sales Cloud data. Thats's why we can't integrate data with Oarcle Sales cl...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

IBM InfoSphere Information Server Pack for Hyperion Essbase compatible with Essbase 11.1.2*

Hi, our RHEL servers (6.9) have been installed with InfoSphere Datastage 11.5.0.1 version. We are planning to connect to Hyperion Essabse version 11.1.2.4.0.79 through Essbase Connector stage to read data. Currently, IBM InfoSphere Information Ser...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Enable easy creation of Connections to Object Storage, Message Hub in Catalog

When I go to create a connection in the Catalog the system auto-discovers my Cloudant instance. That's great. I also have a Message Hub instance and an Object Store instance that I'm using as part of a Streaming Pipeline. These do *not* get discov...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Knox support in File Connector

Have the knox support in the file connector stage reading delimited file or orc file.
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

DataStage (Unstructured Stage) Append Excel File with Data from a DB2 stage using RCP

This is a CRITICAL feature we need. It has stopped a project. This project is costing DST money and we are going to start looking at alternatives to replace DataStage as the solution!
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Unwanted consolidation/aggregation of XML data

I am using XML Output Stage in DataStage 11.3, to generate an XML chunk. Assume my input has rows like these (simplified):InvoiceNo SupplierVAT SupplierCountry SupplierName123 VAT1 NL Annette456 VAT1 NL Annette789 VAT1 NL AnnetteH147 VAT1 NL Annet...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Support Cognos Access Manager authentication in Cognos TM1 Connector

Support Cognos Access Manager authentication in Cognos TM1 Connector
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Technical Specialist- Information Server

With the Amazon S3 stage, our client would like to include the date_created field for a list of files in Amazon S3. Currently this is missing. I would like to read the create date for a file using the DataStage S3 connector, but I do not see that ...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration