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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    Connecting to Amazon Neptune

    The customer has a graph database on Amazon Neptune and wants to establish a connection between CP4D and Neptune so they can create machine learning models using those databases (and leveraging the GPUs available on CP4D). As a workaround, we will...
    3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

    Implement Oracle Connection Manager in default connector

    Oracle Connection Manager is a widely implemented and popular enterprise feature that adds a proxy layer before Oracle databases, exposing services such as session multiplexing, access control, and protocol conversion. Cloud Pak for Data should al...
    4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

    Certify Pack for SAP Applications for SAP S/4HANA 2025 (FPS01)

    We are integrating IBM InfoSphere DataStage (11.7.0.2) with SAP S/4HANA 2025 FPS01 on-premise using the ABAP Extract Stage and Pack for SAP Applications 8.1. IBM Support (case TS022982575) confirmed that SAP S/4HANA 2025 is not yet certified with ...
    5 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

    Multi-Bucket Support for a Single Iceberg Catalog in watsonx

    IBM Iceberg currently supports a one-to-one relationship between an S3 bucket and an Iceberg catalog. While this model is sufficient for simple single-bucket use cases, it creates a limitation for enterprise customers that require a single logical...
    5 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

    Ability to Modify Existing Component Configurations in watsonx.data Infrastructure Manager

    In the watsonx.data Infrastructure Manager, there is currently no option to modify a component's configuration after it has been added. For example, when adding an HDFS storage component, several files must be uploaded to configure Kerberos authen...
    3 months ago in watsonx.data 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...
    about 1 year ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

    Allow data replication for tables with LOB/CLOB/BLOB (GEOMETRY) columns by skipping the LOB payload.

    This enhancement is highly useful for customers using the CP4D Data Replication tool (such as replicating from Db2 to Db2 Warehouse) who have complex schemas containing LOB/BLOB/CLOB columns that they cannot alter or drop. Currently, the presence ...
    about 2 months ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 1 Submitted

    Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

    This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
    11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

    Native perhaps a repeat, but is this required? I don't entirely see how its useful Connector for IBM watsonx.data

    Develop a native and officially supported connector that enables Ab Initio to read data from and ingest data into IBM watsonx.data, a native connector should simplify data exchange between both platforms and support: Ingesting data into Apache Ice...
    4 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

    SAP Odata connector must support filters applied on properties that are not present in the returned dataset

    Currently, the connector is able to filter based on the properties returned in the dataset by composing URLs like:.../YPP_CP_TASK_CP4DResults?$filter=A4YPP_CP_TASKZCPR_PROJ eq '802-P0009'. The SAP OData service allows the definition of properties ...
    about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

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