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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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DataStage

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Add support for Db2 timestamp(12) data type in DataStage and CP4D

The Db2 data type timestamp(12) (timestamp with a precision up to 12 digits of the second) is not supported by DataStage. This data type is used and required for temporal tables in Db2 (LUW) and Db2 for z/OS. Temporal tables are a very helpful fun...
about 20 hours ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Require SAP Business Warehouse functionality

This was/is a feature in 11.7 and is not yet in Datastage Cartridge/NextGen. Needed for customer work.
5 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Sort engines by alphabetical order in the datastage console

We created an engine spdsengqlf05 before the engine spdsengqlf04 and they seem to appear in creation order (or xmeta database order) in the console indode the drop down engine list at top right of the screen.
12 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

CP4D - Would like to be able to delete multiple jobs at the same time in the GUI

While the asset browser now allows selection of multiple assets for deletion in most places, the "job" view has no such selection and jobs must be selected one at a time and then deleted. The GUI should offer the same type of selection boxes for j...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Jobs API - have synchronous call to launch Datastage jobs

One of our customer (CNP in France) is evaluating the CP4D-DataStage. They have DataStage 11.5 and actually migrating to 11.7. They have a framework (BASIC code that orchestrates the DataStage jobs) that is the centerpiece of their DataStage proje...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
2 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Functional difference between Datastage V11.7 and V11.5.

The client has just migrated their Datastage jobs to V11.7 but they have an issue with variable names in the migrated rules. Although the lab managed to reproduce the issue, they responded two days ago stating that they do not have a workaround fo...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Infosphere information server redirect url after SSO

when trying embed the IGC lineage url for a asset as an iframe in another app. When the user clicks on the link it redirects to IGC home page instead of the lineage page in igc. Below case was opened as part of troubleshooting the issue with IBM. ...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted