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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Connectivity

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Add a platform-level connector for Microsoft Azure Fabric lakehouse

We would like to establish the connection between WKC and Microsoft Azure fabric lakehouse. The purpose is to pull the metadata from this MS platform and catalog using IBM's WKC platform. This is the top need of our business. We would like to have...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

ICP4D v4.6.5 PROD [MDI]: MSSQL Connection Configuration should not have database as mandatory field

We are facing issues while connecting with MSSQL databases from ICP4D/WKC. Typically each VAST ID for the MSSQL database has few instances and hundreds of databases, therefore the connection setting shouldn't have the database field as mandatory. ...
2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Planned for future release

Connectivity to Azure Resources using Service Principal approach

General Motors is investigating DataStage NextGen as part of modernization of their current DataStage jobs. As General Motors is heavily invested and focused on Azure, several application teams are leveraging Azure database solutions such as Azure...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Planned for future release

Native connector for Yellowbrick bulk transactions

A native bulk loader connector for Yellowbrick would help our customers to improve the performance of the ETL processes that need to move large amounts of data to and from the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse. This connector should work like the nzload ...
8 months ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

Extend Schema Registry support to non-Kafka sources

CP4D support for the use of a Schema Registry is currently limited to Kafka data sources (ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=catalogs-apache-kafka-connection). However, Schema Registries represent a valuable method ens...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Need an option to create Postgresql connection without the database name.

Currently, CPD doesn't support Postgresql connection without the database name. Need an option to create Postgresql connection without the database name.
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Redshift connector - Allow the use of IAM role authentication to establish connection instead of the access key and secret key.

Allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

DataDirect jdbc driver for mongodb support balanced string

Then this idea stems from the fact that the customer wanted to connect to mongodb through our jdbc driver, however their mongodb team provided him with a balanced string with a replicaset parameter that allows you to replicate data on the affected...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Support of external OS authentication in Oracle optimized connector

None of the Oracle connectors in Cloud Pak for Data supports external OS authentication whereas IIS did support it. As we know from legacy that external OS authentication method requires DataStage user (like dsadm) to be created in Oracle DB, to a...
6 months ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration