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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

Enable concurrency for Default Pipelines

Currently concurrency feature is only enabled for the Optimized Runner and it is not available for Default Pipelines. We would want concurrency enabled for default pipelines as well.
about 20 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Permit resizing individual columns (especially in the New Transformer)

In general, all stages that offer editing the input and output columns have a difficulty of displaying the full information and there seems to be no way to resize the display of individual columns. The default space seems even more narrow than nec...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

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...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Runtime Logging Export for DataStage

Administrators, operations teams, and DataStage users need the ability to export DataStage runtime logs to an external storage service, such as ADLS Gen2, while a DataStage flow or pipeline is actively running. Currently, there is a way to export ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

UDF Governance on CPD

Administrators need enhanced governance and role-based access control for User-Defined Functions, UDFs, in DataStage within watsonx.data integration on Cloud Pak for Data, CPD. Currently, UDFs in DataStage can be created by any user on the platfor...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 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...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

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.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Make the UI actually usable

The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Name Resolution on CP4D level

We have a CP4D Deplyoment on Openshift and want to deliver data into an Azure Datalake Store using a private Endpoint. The communication shall go via an Express Route. Actually we don not yet have a Hybrid DNS (no DNS forwarding from OnPrem) so th...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Execution Order of Before SQL and SELECT with Runtime Column Propagation Enabled in Redshift connector.

When Runtime Column Propagation (RCP) is enabled in Redshift connector, DataStage executes the SELECT statement during the stage check phase to infer metadata. If the SELECT depends on a table or view created dynamically in Before SQL, the job fai...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review