Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


ADD A NEW IDEA

DataStage

Showing 450

DataStage roles (allow migration but not editing or creation of jobs)

We need a new role that allows for migration of jobs but does not allow for the creation and editing of jobs. This is for separation of duties.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Support ThoughtSpot as a source/ target

We would like to connect to ThoughtSpot as a source/target. Please certify the use of ThoughtSpot.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DRS plugin of DataStage 11.3.1 to be certified with SQL Server 2016 and 2017

We want DRS Plugin of DataStage 11.3.1 to be certified with SQL Server 2016 and 2017 versions.We can't upgrade 11.3 DataStage to 11.5 or above as DRS Plugin is deprecated by IBM from 11.5 on wards and we have DRS Plugin all over the code and also ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Operational Console Report generator tab.

The DSODB database which sits behind the Operational Console is a treasure trove of information. It would be very handy if the webpage allowed for some standardized reports to be generated. Such reports could be a PDF or Excel format. Data in the ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enable RCP Support in Data Masking Stage

Request to enable runtime column propagation in the data masking stage. Currently the stage has the check box available on the output link however any columns passed through at runtime that are not specified at design time are automatically droppe...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

JDBC stage with MapR Drill on AIX

The stage jdbc Connector is not compatible with the Drill driver on AIX (CASE TS000995317 ; https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/). we would like an evolution:• upgrading the JRE (DataStage) to 1.8 at the engine level for future versions of the ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Oracle 18c support in DataStage v11.5

There seems to no support for connecting to Oracle 18c Database from DataStage 11.5 or 11.7
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Windows 10 pro operating system- 11.7 & 11.5 and 11.3 datastage clients dump

Hi Team, We are not able to see the Datastage 11.7 & 11.5 and 11.3 clients software dump for Windows 10 pro operating system in IBM portal. case id:TS001093463
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Add FTPS functionality in FTP Enterprise stage

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Increase the Variable length key record to greater 32767

We are getting an error while executing a Datastage job. We didn't see any explanation of this error online. Error: Sort_record_strings,0: Trouble encoding sort keys: Variable-length key "record" length too large (35074), limit is 32767 Please rev...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration