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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

Configurable attachment/version retention policy

Current DataStage/CAMS import behavior creates a new attachment/version every time assets are imported using the “replace” option. In enterprise CI/CD environments with automated deployments and shared dependencies, this quickly reaches the curren...
3 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Request to increase the 1000-Line Execution Log Limit in DataStage Anywhere

In DataStage 9, we were able to fully trace and monitor iterative processes that generated extensive log entries. Currently, the DataStage Anywhere web interface limits the execution log display to only the first 1000 lines. Full log visibility is...
3 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Automated Backup for DataStage Anywhere

Built-in scheduling for automated (non-manual) project and metadata backups. Currently this is done by a manual process of backup/restore
3 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Schedule a single job multiple times a day with different parameters via UI for DataStage Anywhere

This feature currently is supported in Datastage 8 and 9 however it is nos possible in DataStage SaaS. We require this feature to be available in the UI. The details of the scenario is described in this ticket: TS021624305. Currently there is a sh...
3 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Calculate Data Quality rule success rates based on the filtered/evaluated row count instead of the total underlying table row count.

A customer stores production data in a single large table and applies Data Quality rules only to specific subsets of that data by using SQL WHERE clauses. Currently, the Data Quality rule success rate appears to be calculated against the total row...
5 days ago in DataStage Submitted

DataStage should support non-interactive Linux ID for the ETL platform setup

Current State The DataStage ETL platform on Linux currently requires interactive user IDs with password authentication for two critical configuration steps: Engine owner (admin ID) selection during installation Credential mapping during post-i...
15 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Virtual Machine access without mounting path

The VM is mounted onto CP4D on /mnts In datastage 11.5 we locate dataset on the unix path /local/data In datastage CP4D, we now need to precise /mnts/local/data That is a major break in the migration from 11.5 to CP4D. We would like not to precise...
about 2 months ago in DataStage Submitted

Improve modifying email notification settings and applying email certificates

The interface to apply email settings in IBM Software Hub isn't user friendly. We are now required to update our email certificates every 45 days. The current interface has us enter the new email certificate but we are unable to save our changes u...
about 2 months ago in DataStage Under review

Datastage ability to mount nfs and run software as a user

Allow better integration to ldap users in Datastage in order to run software and mount nfs share as a user. Today nfs mounts show as user 999 (unknown user) and this is not acceptable from a security point of view. Also the customer uses encryptio...
about 2 months ago in DataStage Under review

Ensure Job Compilation Parity Across DataStage Interfaces

Problem: There should be functional parity in BASIC code generation across all DataStage job compilation methods, including: • Thick client (legacy Designer)• DataStage Flow Designer (DFD)• Server-side / REST API compilation Currently, jobs can co...
about 2 months ago in DataStage Under review