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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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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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Use correct DB type to read Sybase IQ data with Sybase EE stage

Today to read data from Sybase IQ database, we use Sybase Enterprise stage with Read DB Type = ASE but if we put Read DB Type = IQ, the job terminates with the status Finished whereas it doesnt work. The version of datastage is 11.3.1.2Enhancement...
almost 10 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the security/usage of batch jobs

As more and more customers need improved and automatic data processes, we use the "Import from Staging Table" functionality. When we create a batch job we specify the user to run the batch job, but everybody is able to execute the job, which does ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

Request for Functional Enhancement for SPSS

Requesting enhancement feature to obtained pooled results for Repeated and Multivariate analyses using imputed data.
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Add Partition read to BigIntegrate ODBC stage

When reading from HIVE tables using ODBC stage, we should be able to read from multiple partitions at the same time. For ex: if the HIVE table has more than 1 data file (has 5 different part files), then when reading data from this HIVE table usin...
almost 10 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

InfoSphere DataStage to support Oracle Advanced Security (OAS)

We have sensitive data in Oracle Database, and when running ETL, those data could be read to InfoSphere server, and there could be risk when read data from Oracle to InfoSphere server or write this kind of sensitive data to Oracle database. Oracle...
almost 10 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Security Groups on Actualities

In Controller it is not currently possible to limit access to certain actualities for certain users. We have users who are responsible for the forecast/budget who should only have read access to the actual data, and vice versa.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Externalize performance t...

I have a performance trace running requesting IFCIDS 58 (END), 59 (FETCH), 65(OPEN), 66(CLOSE). I run the following Cobol program: ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. C011MAIN. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 77 FILLER PIC X(12)...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum allowed size of DB2 V10.5 data types in create nickname

SQL Create Nickname statement returns the following error:SQL0901N The SQL statement failed because of a non-severesystem error. Subsequent SQL statements can be processed. (Reason "Invalid nickname column length". SQLSTATE=58004, SQLCODE=-901, DR...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Allow ODBC connector write to HIVE table /or File connector read HIVE table

1) ODBC connector for HIVe allows reading hive tables but doesn't work for writing hive table. It works - only very very slow and not acceptable for Big Data operation ( a few records in minutes). 1a. Additionally, If columns defined in UPPER case...
almost 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Workspace advanced limitation - Set search defaults as Case Insensitive

Users need additional flexibility in their search. Source data can have a mis-match of upper and lower case values, especially in Customer POs, Delivery Block Codes, Order Reason and Order Types, so if a user inputs the selection in a different fo...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration