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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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DataStage

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Ability to schedule job running at higher granularity than a day

As a Job administrator, I would like to schedule jobs running more frequently within a day, maybe running every hour.Currently, Director allows a job to be scheduled to run twice a day. To allow the jobs to run every hour, we have to create 12 sch...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Info Server TFS integration with multiple repositories

We would like the ability to integrate with multiple TFS repositories from our DataStage servers.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Output errno to job log

DataStage job finished with a warning message "cannot open file &PH&" on the customer's system, so we investigated to the cause of the error, however we couldn't determine the root cause because of the lack of information. Errno helps us t...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance slowly changing dimension stage to full bi temporal join

Enhance the functionality of the stage "Slowly changing dimension" to a bi temporal functionality like the time travel feature from DB2. A typical use case in every DWH or data lake project is to store all versions of the data which you get from y...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automate migration of DataStage job with Enterprise Data Warehouse as the target to Hadoop

Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) optimization has been observed as the most common use case for data lake initiatives. Off loading EDW data into Hadoop provides a highly cost-efficient environment with optimal performance, scalability and flexibili...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce Connector - Datastage V11 - API 40

Actually, we can use the api 39 in the salesforce connector and we need to use the 40.0 release.Moreover , the 41.0 release is done in salesforce.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Get and read file from http(s) server from datastage

We have stage to retrieve and read file from ftp servers, so we should have the same functionality from http(s) servers.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Job name change while migrating jobs from DataStage to ClearCase

We are integrating Infosphere DataStage 11.5 with ClearCase 8.0.1 and it was successful but when we are migrating DataStage jobs to ClearCase VOB job names are not getting replicated as it is instead of that jobs are added with an extension. Examp...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Connect from Datastage to Salesforce using SAML Transaction (Federated Authentication)

We are looking for an ability in Salesforce Connector Stage to Connect from Datastage to Salesforce using SAML Transaction (Federated Authentication). Background: How Federated Authentication Works- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) provid...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration