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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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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

Partition Read is not working in 9.1.2 for DB2 11.1 (LUW)

Partition Read feature in DataStage DB2 Connector stage is not working in 9.1.2 when connected to DB2 11.1 (LUW) PMR Resolution: IIS 9.1.2 does not currently support "DB2 v11.1.0.0". Right now for IIS 9.1.2, DB2 support versions are DB2 9.5.x, 9.7...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Changes to support automated General Diagnostic Health Checks

System: Applies to the complete InfoSphere Product FamilyActor: System Administrator We need to be able to automate health checks, but the current ISALite has two limitations that would need to be fixed:1) You cannot encrypt passwords as input whe...
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

UNIX ODBC Support tools

Information Server on UNIX ODBC Support tools (in /Server/branded_odbc/IBM_Tools/ ) have various problems :- capture_env.ksh : Doesn't work when Information Server Engine administrator is chosen as different user than from "dsadm"- odbc_version.sh...
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Surrogate Key Reset after failure of parallel DataStage job as state file is left as Truncated.

If a job fails at the while the parallel engine transformer function NextSurrogateKey() is updating the key state file,it is possible that the state file will be left in a truncated state. To a later job, the TRUNCATED state file looks just a NEW ...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Ansible solution for USPS & QSAVI modules periodic reference files updates

IBM releases monthly/quarterly updates to the reference files for both USPS & QSAVI wherein we need to manually login to the IBM passport advantage portal and download the files and then apply them on our environment. We are looking for an aut...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Godala

We have a single record in a file with word count 456331887 wc -c mdmn_GCRM_20180505004107.xml 456331887 I specified $APT_DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_BLOCK_SIZE=500000000 but max value of APT_DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_BLOCK_SIZE is 268435456.due to this i ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

NLS Map name is required in Job Report

Designer Client generates Job Report Menu bar --> File --> Generate Job Report The default style sheet DSJobReport.*.xsl does not have function to display NLS Map Name.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration