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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Search results: DataStage

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Oracle balanced optimization doesn't support timestamp data type with microseconds

Our business requirement is to store date fields as timestamp with microsecond precision. Balanced optimization for Oracle is not able to optimize transformer stage that contains date literals with this precision. IBM engineering confirmed that th...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration
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rebuilding part of the DFD in Datastage

Merged
We started using new data flow designer as IBM suggested .If we donot use this it will impact the license cost and developers and also users will be impacted.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0

Datastage on Hadoop: RFE: localize .odbc.ini automatically

What we want to see is that the ODBC connector stage can localize .odbc.ini through YARN, just in the way like Kerberos credential cache or keytab in file connector. So after each update of the .odbc.ini file on edge node, no manual intervention i...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

read text files with carriage returns in parallel jobs

PARALLEL job's Sequential File Stage throws an error reading a .csv file that contains a carriage return inside a char/varchar field. There is no option to read the data within a parallel job. SERVER job's Sequential File Stage has the column opti...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS data type TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE for Information Server DB2 Connector not supported

The specific DB2 z/OS data type "TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE" is not supported by Information Server/Datastage DB2 Connector.If one encounters this type, an unspecific error comes up. At least, the error should be more expressive and detailed. After a...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Parameterize seed in Repeatable Replacement data masking policy

We would request for enhancing the data masking policy editor in data masking stage to accept job parameter for the seed value when doing repeatable replacement data masking policy
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automatic directory creation on Node managers

We have IS 11.5.0.1 installed on Hadoop HDP 2.4.Customer had to inform their hadoop admin team to create .../InformationServer directory and ISProject directory on Node Managers. Customer is using non default IS Project path ,Every time they are c...
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Windows 10 compatibility for Data Integration and Data Quality

Boston College is providing Windows 10 Laptop to Information Server Client users. We recently observed that Windows 10 client is not compatible with Data Integration Client and Data Quality Clients
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Data Flow Designer GitHub/BitBucket Integration

We are using bitbucket through command line for all our code migration activities. We were hoping to see Data Flow Designer provide a UI based integration with BitBucket and GitHub. However the gap is that for the connectivity to work, GIT needs s...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future 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
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration