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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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Disable a stage/path on canvas

Be able to toggle stages and execution paths as on/off. Gray out the stage icon if it's been deactivated. During development and debugging you want to be able to test up to a certain point and but may not want to include every aspect. But if you d...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SOAP 1.2 supported by Datastage 9.1

We would like to launch Web Service with SOAP 1.2 in order to retrieve attaachements (text file) sent by Web Service but SOAP 1.2 is not supported by Datastage
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

File Connector Centrify Certified

DataStage v11.3 failed to connect to Hadoop Secure (Kerberos)Cluster. We are using Centrify for Kerberos authentication. IBM Engineering confirmed that Centrify is not supported with the File Connector. Centrify has not been tested or certified.
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DRS Connector and Oracle Connector select only some columns when doing a "view data"

I ask to be able to view only the selected columns (instead of allt he columns) when I use the "view data" functionality with the DRS Connector and Oracle Connector.
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SLES 12 and InfoSphere Information Server V11.5

Hello!The compatibility report explains that Suse Linus Enterprise Server 12 isn't supported. But we plan to migrate to the new version of IIS V11.5 in few month. We want to use IIS V11.5 servers and engines on SLES 12.
about 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

IS 11.5 DRS Connector (with ODBC flavor) to support multiple table names

DRS Connector (with ODBC flavor) isnot support multiple table names with the auto generated SQL query.We want to implement this functionality
about 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced mathematical functions for larger data types

Some Mathematical functions accept dfloat as input but in output are restricted to int32. These functions need to be expanded to be able to return int64 values
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic File Splitter Stage

I would like a file stage that would dynamically create flat files based on a field or a combination of fields within the input data. By dynamic I mean that if the field being used to determine the split today has 3 unique values then 3 separate f...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Addition of the BASIC function DSGetJobQueue

Addition of the BASIC function DSGetJobQueue. There is no way to retrieve the WLM queue of a job at runtime using the DataStage BASIC interface. We can set it with DSSetQueue but retrieval is impossible.
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Default WLM queue at the sequence level

Add the functionality to set a design-time default WLM queue name at the sequence level.
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration