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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Cloud Pak for Data

Enable ORCHESTRATE Support in Redshift Connector

Currently, ORCHESTRATE-based job design logic works correctly with the Teradata connector, but fails with the Redshift connector. This creates a functional gap during Teradata → Redshift migrations and forces redesign of existing, production-stabl...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Under review

Deleting the data Flows after rule execution

This idea is derived from CPDIDEAS-I-2537 specific for deleting the data flows with rule execution (as per IBM request). IBM handling the rules execution flows deletion up to some extend. But still not a full proof solution. #Flows not deleting fo...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 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...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

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

Add support for Before SQL file and After SQL file e in the Redshift connector, similar to the existing functionality in the Teradata connector.

Our organization is currently migrating from Teradata to Amazon Redshift, and we have discovered a significant gap between the Teradata connector and the Redshift connector in IBM DataStage. The Teradata connector currently provides the ability to...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Folder-Level Access Control in CP4D Volumes

Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D), access control for data stored in persistent volumes (PVs/PVCs) can only be managed at the volume level. This means that any user with access to the volume can view and modify all folders and files with...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

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

Backup and restore IBM Cloud Pak with Kasten

Hello, We are using Kasten (VEEAM) to backup and restore all of our apps on Openshift and we would like to use it also for IBM Cloud Pak (for data, for automation, for integration, ...). Regards.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

Service permissions

In the past we had different User Groups using a tool. for Example one group was using datastage and another one the knowledge catalog. It was easy to say if someone is allowed to use a toolstack, because you just need to give them a permission. E...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review