IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Advanced JSON functionality

    It would be great if the JSON functionality could be expanded. Currently, we have the problem that Db2 doesn't support the 'nested path' JSON expression. For example, create table msct.json_test (id integer not null, json_data CLOB(10485760 OCTETS...
    about 10 hours ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

    FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

    Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
    2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

    An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

    When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
    6 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

    The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

    Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
    4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

    Custom Enrichment Objective

    Allow a custom enrichment objective (example from a notebook job or other process data asset) that allows the enrichment of custom attributes, which can either be pre-defined at design time or created dynamically at runtime during the enrichment p...
    28 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

    Schema Validation using Avro File Format under File Connector stage (AvroStreams)

    Schema Validation exists with old avro1.x version but not with Avrostreams. Schema vadliation should be always available Avrostreams which avoid CLASSPATH setting.
    about 1 month ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

    Resync job must provide status of resync done

    Current resync job can take a long time to run and there is the start of the job and end of the job. In the situation we were in, we did not know how long this process would run and had no indication if the job was progressing. It would be useful ...
    9 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

    Add support for IKC and DataStax

    We require native connection to DataStax and IKC Reviewing the multiple DB, DataStax is only supported on DataStage Apache Cassandra is supported, technically it should be somewhat similar to Cassandra. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-da...
    9 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

    IBM Lin_Tape driver support für Rocky Linux 8

    As mentioned above, it would be great if you would consider supporting Lin_Tape driver on Rocky Linux 8.
    5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Under review

    Industry Accelerator "SAP": Proactive Enhancement of IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) and watsonx.data for German SAP Customers and SAP BW Migrations

    To maintain and grow IBM’s relevance in the SAP ecosystem—especially for German-speaking customers—we must proactively enhance our catalog and metadata solutions (IKC and watsonx.data) to deeply support German language, SAP-specific metadata, and ...
    3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

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