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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.

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.

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Add to DB2 stage a z/os read method using DB2HPU utility

We currently want to improve data extraction process from DB2 z/OS database performance.It would be nice to call UNLOAD utility or DB2HPU using DB2 Connector Stage instead of using SQL queries.As the bulk load method exists to bulk load data to z/...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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

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

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

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

ISX Export Path and File Name

The DataStage plug-in, in the ISX Export step in UCD doesn't allow to include either the PATH nor the File Name. There is no control on the these things.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Istool command gives "Export failed" when nothing to export

We use the istool.sh command to export parts of XMETA repository. If there is nothing to export, the command returns an "Export failed" message, that causes trouble in our generic error handling functionality. In my opinion the message "Export fai...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Computer enhanced access - client installation issues

Company security requires our Admins to to remove accounts from the local admin group. Users should have rights granted in another way. It fails if the user ID is not explicitly in the administrative group, even if they are given administrative ri...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Increase the size of varchar column in Z/oS File Stage

When we use the Z/oS File Stage for ingest in a varchar field bigger than 32K the process fail the case for this problem was TS000138743
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration