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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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Use the engines of the lakehouse in Git integrated projects

We have an instance of watsonx.data in CP4D, installed on Openshift in Azure Cloud. Within watsonx.data we have buckets representing azure containers within a Azure Blob storage. In projects that are integrated with Git, when we need to configure ...

Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs execution information

We are entering a migration from DataStage 11.7 to DataStage Anywhere, control plane in IBM Cloud and Data Place in OCI/On Premise instances. Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs executio...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Orchestration pipeline as a pipeline runner from CPD SaaS UI, including the schedule

Hello IBM Product Team. We request the options where the Orchestration pipeline as a pipeline runner from CPD SaaS UI, where the Jobs executed in DataStage Anywhere. This requirement arises when we encounter stages that require executing bash comm...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

A Github integration ensures enterprise-grade governance, automation, and agility for data engineering workflows. By leveraging GitHub and LevelUp tooling, clients gain robust version control, rollback capabilities, and automated testing/deployment for pipelines and DAGs. It reduces operational risk, accelerates delivery, and aligns with modern DevOps practices.

Large enterprise clients like AT&T, who manage complex data pipelines across hybrid environments, will benefit from streamlined CI/CD processes, improved security, and consistent governance across services. How should it work? GitHub Integra...

We need an enhancement regarding the exact drag&drop facility in transformer stages coming with CP4D datastage just the way it has been working in IIS Datastage.

It would be quite handy since we get to use it in legacy datastage.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Under review

Option to view number of jobs running on the platform over the period.

We request this enhancement as there is currently no option to view the number of jobs running on platform over a given period. This feature is available on IBM DS 11.7 Operations Console and is useful for effectively monitoring and managing job c...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Gitops pattern for DataStage NG/Cloud Pak for data installation / update

The customer has implemented a standard for containerized deployments (CD pipeline) towards Kubernetes/Openshift with the following stages: Git → ArgoCD → k8s/Openshift The current installation of Datastage based on CPD shall use the GitOps patter...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Submitted

Writing Iceberg data format working with specific catalog (for example Dremio)

Hi Using CPD Datastage tool, we can write a data in Iceberg format using Generic S3 component. But we want to write this iceberg format data that we wrote to a Storage volume to a desired catalog (Hive, Nessie, etc.). In this transfer, we cannot s...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Create an option on the UI to Duplicate a connection in Datastage

Currently we have an option to create duplicate pipelines and flows, but not the connection. It would help the developers if there is an option to create duplicate connection
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Submitted

Preview for row generator in DataStage

Preview is not offered for row generator, but only for data connections. In the legacy Designer all source stages had a preview option. This is particularly important for a a row generator when you want to check if the generated content is like ex...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted