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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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Connectivity

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Find/search connections beyond currently displayed in the Platform connections page.

Current design of the Find/Search in Platform connections page: the search can only find something within the loaded connections, so the user would have to click on `Show more` to load the remaining connections if they have over 100 connections cr...
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Group level access to tickets

We are unable to grant access to all cases for a single system to all a team responsible for a product. You can either see your own tickets or all tickets for the ICN (which includes multiple products). We need a way to group people together so th...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

ODBC - Bulk Load capability

CP4D - DataStage will be used in the data flows defined in our datalake using Postgres and Azure SQL. Because we are required to use the ODBC Connector for the connections we require the capability of doing Bulk Loads , exactly as this is offered ...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

DataStage server jobs are failing due to no ODBC connector support to load data into Snowflake database

Currently, we have several DataStage server jobs designed to solve a specific problem and running fine to extract data sourcing from flat files & SQL servers and targeting to Netezza database. Now we are in the process of migrating the on-prem...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

DataStage Designer - Fields for Siebel Business Objects or Components returning wrong values

This issues has been experienced on both InfoSphere Information Server 11.5 and 11.7.1.1. After submitting an IBM PMR to try to resolve the issues the final response from IBM Support was: Our Engineering team reviewed the issue and have advised th...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Kafka Connector support SASL PLAINTEXT with SCRAM-SHA-512 mechanism

No description provided
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

DataStage MQ Connector does not support use of the userid and password under UNIX

We are trying to configure MQ Connector to connect to MQ Server using userid and password. Connection fails with "2035 MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED". Connection works only without authentication. PMR confirmed we need to submit enhancement request to add n...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

DataStage - Azure [Datalake] Storage Connector - Support parallelism parquet format

From PMR it has been confirmed that: Parallel Read/write - CSV and Delimited only support parallel write operations, rest of all file formats do not support parallel read/write. Parquet format doesn't support parallel read/write It is not document...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Support KMS keys on Google Cloud Storage.

DataStage jobs that write to a GCS bucket, using the GCS connector, get error that includes " is encrypted with a Cloud KMS key, which is not supported."
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration