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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Certify Pack for SAP Applications for SAP S/4HANA 2025 (FPS01)

We are integrating IBM InfoSphere DataStage (11.7.0.2) with SAP S/4HANA 2025 FPS01 on-premise using the ABAP Extract Stage and Pack for SAP Applications 8.1. IBM Support (case TS022982575) confirmed that SAP S/4HANA 2025 is not yet certified with ...
6 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable SD Auth by pass for Users in an SSO/Kerberos enabled environment

we would like to check if possible that under workload SSO enabled cluster, if we can support AD authentication bypass if user specifying empty string as the user name. 
9 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Expose a documented, supported and deterministic release mechanism for TaskOutputHandle in the Symphony .NET SDK.

Following up on our discussion under support case TS022160603, we are experiencing high memory usage in our Symphony .NET client. Our testing indicates that the native memory associated with TaskOutputHandle is not released promptly/properly after...
9 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
about 1 year ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

SYMREST add disable/enable Symphony application feature

Users want to manage Symphony applications and workload via SYMREST service which cannot bounce an application per ticket TS022907381 . Bounce (disable/enable) application is a very basic operation in application management.
16 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

eliminate windows Visual C++ 12 (VS 2013) dependencies for soam

soam component is still built on top VC run time 120 even in the latest version. this is now being flagged as tech debit and vulnerability from our internal scanning and we need to figure out a way to resolve it.
21 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Schema Validation using Avro File Format under File Connector stage (AvroStreams)

Schema Validation exists with old avro1.x version but not with Avrostreams. Schema vadliation should be always available Avrostreams which avoid CLASSPATH setting.
11 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

We need new Installer which can support installing IIS with Db2 v12.1 directly

We are building an IIS environment with IIS v11.7.1.6 and Db2 v12.1.5.I see that Db2 v12.1.5 is supported recently. InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.6 Service Pack 3 Announcement How to upgrade Db2 11.5 to version 12.1 for IBM InfoSphere Infor...
29 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Support Adding additional network-only credential into SI running on Windows

Enhance IBM Symphony/EGO Service Instance (SI) execution on Windows to support a secondary network-only credential in addition to the existing Run As account. This would allow an SI to continue running locally under its configured Windows account ...
29 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

ODM 9.5 Integration with IIS 11.7.1.3

The current Infosphere datastage supports ODM 8.10 only. There is a dependency on Java JDK 9.5 for ODM 9.5 packages to be used. We wanted to see if there is a way to backport ODM 9.5 integration to DataStage on Java 8. This would allow us to conti...
3 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted