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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Pipelines in Next Gen DataStage requires compilation in a protected environment ( Production environment )

Next Gen DataStage: At present, pipelines require compilation in a protected environment (Production). This process updates the last modified date on the log, which raises concerns about tracking changes and identifying what modifications were int...
25 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Bidirectional SharePoint Connector for DataStage in IBM Cloud Pak for Data

This proposal aims to develop a native bidirectional connector between Microsoft SharePoint and DataStage within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.The connector should allow users to extract and send data (read and write operations) from and to SharePoint li...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Enhancement of BiqQuery connector stage - Credential field to be modified to hold JSON data in encrypted format

We are currently running applications hosted on Information Server 11.7.1.4 version. We have a critical requirment to connect Google Cloud through a datastage job. We have considered BiqQuery connector stage as a suitable one for fulfillment. Curr...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Support for Integration of Iceberg Tables with Datastage Generic S3 Connector

The S3 connector in it's current shape & form does not support CRUD operations on S3 table bucket objects. We're current doing Data warehousing in Redshift instead of a Data lake in S3 as a workaround. Similar to the recent enhancement in Reds...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

CP4D - Would like to be able to delete multiple jobs at the same time in the GUI

While the asset browser now allows selection of multiple assets for deletion in most places, the "job" view has no such selection and jobs must be selected one at a time and then deleted. The GUI should offer the same type of selection boxes for j...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Missing Error Message, when no default runtime is present

We now had two times the problem, that we didn't get a proper error message, if no default runtime on a project was set. We would like to have a clear error message "no default runtime set" to not waste days of searching and comunicating with the ...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Kafka connector : Add the functionality to read Kafka message headers in the stage

Add the functionality to read Kafka message headers in the stage. Accessing the Kafka message header allows specifying the nature of the message detail.
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted