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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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DataStage FlowDesigner add support for multi invocation of a job

DataStage Designer/Director support Multiple Invocations but the FlowDesigner (v11.7.1.1) does not support it. Please provide support for multi invocations for Sequences and parallel Jobs. That's a important feature that should not be thrown away ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

When using WHERE clause in Filter stage, user should set fields/columns manually but any assist functions such as recommended fields/columns listed automatically implemented.

In current ETL design, user should set fields/columns input manually when they want to set WHERE clause in Filter stage. One of our customer requests to function enhancement so that users can select listed fields/columns that CP4D tool listed. By ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

CASE suppot for transformer

Support Case construct in Transformer derivation
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Generate schema from SQL statement

In DB2 Connector stage it should be possible to generate the schema based on the (handcoded) Select statement. It could be an additional option of the Tools Button ("Generate schema/columns").
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enabling Single Sign-On for IIS web clients (thin clients) using eTAI within WebSphere Application Server

Need formal support for IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) Enhanced Trust Association Interceptor (eTAI) as a web-SSO mechanism for IIS thin clients (web apps) proxied through ISAM WebSEAL. The eTAI works fine on IE but not on Firefox. It is proba...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Searchable Operations Console

Enable the ability to search and filter in the operations console. The ability to filter when viewing a job for a specific invocation id would be ideal.
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Difficult reading of stage transformer in CP4D

Stage Variables: It is challenging to view all stage variables simultaneously and discern their interrelationships. Additionally, it is not possible to identify the types of fields in use. Output Derivation: The box for adding field derivations is...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Request to easily integrate custom scripts into the managed, SaaS DataStage Runtime

Our company is using Cloud Pak for Data as a managed service, which means we don't have direct access to the OpenShift platform or any of the pods or servers that run the Cloud Pak services, like the DataStage server. Occasionally with on-prem Dat...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Enhance DataStage Flow Designer Integration with Git

We have started using Git for maintaining our DataStage codebase. We're able to publish/load the jobs to/from Git repo successfully. However, if we want to publish multiple jobs to the Git repository at once, current version of DataStage Flow Desi...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Request to update document the instruction to upload CSV files via Web browser on Data transform

Update the following document with the instruction how to upload CSV files via Web browser on Data transform. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQNUZ_2.5.0/cpd/access/data-sources.html
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration