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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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SQL Server 2022 compatibility with DS 11.7.1.4 and onward

SQL Server 2019 is going to be out of our company's roadmap by end of 2024. We will need to go with SQL Server 2022 for our new server build. Need to ensure this version of SQL Server is supported by DataStage.
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

File Encryption

We have a requirement to encrypt the file after extracting the data and push it to file transfer.
12 months ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Support for SAP SRM connection via SNC

In Information Server 11.7 it is possible to connect to SAP S4/Hana ERP via APAB and BAPI connector with SNC. Please support this functionality with SQP SRM as well.
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

JDBC Connector support more host in the connection string for mongodb

Hello team, the customer when connecting to mongodb via jdbc connector would need to be able to insert multiple hosts in the connection string instead of just one host as mentioned in the progress documentation that was provided to us by IBM suppo...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ajouter la gestion de l'avro dans le composant kafka connector - Add avro management in kafka connector component

Bonjour Le Connector Kafka ne supporte les schémas Avro qu'avec des types simple, pas de "Record", "Array", "Enum" ou "Map". Il faut penser à ajouter la gestion des "Record", "Array", "Enum" ou "Map". impossible de travailler sans ça HelloThe Kafk...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Snowflake connector - Insert new rows only

The current Snowflake connector does not support inserting only new rows using a merge statement if there are only key columns and no attributes. For example, if you want to have every possible unique combination of 2 columns, there is currently n...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - canvas

When you change something in the job, flow designer changes the layout of the job in the canvas.
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - error visibility

When we have a setup problem/error in the hierarchy stage in the mapping Step or output step, the Datastage designer visibly mentions them at the moment in the regular DataStage designer. But that isn't the case with the flow designer, you have to...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0

Application rotation or maintenance of created files in /tmp (ex. snappy)

The product leaves temporary files into /tmp directory that are not properly taked care of. That means that external processes must be carried out in order to not flood that directory. Could you please implement into the product any mean of addres...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review