Hi,
the general place for Teradata enhancement request is
http://www.teradata-partners.com/ER/submit
Where it might be interesting to discuss new requirements in the forum as well but I guess finally you need to open an ER.
I personally would not support your specific request of allowing M/D/YYYY formats to avoid "having to specify a ‘0’ in front of single digit months" but this is out of my business. This MM/DD or DD/MM is already a nightmare ;->. Your issue can be overcome with a simple SQL UDF.
Cast as smallint to a char(2) is challenging - small int range is from -32768 to 32767. So you need 6 char to be able to place all possible values in it, and this is what you see. And again I personally prefer it this way.
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