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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.

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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Virtual Machine access without mounting path

The VM is mounted onto CP4D on /mnts In datastage 11.5 we locate dataset on the unix path /local/data In datastage CP4D, we now need to precise /mnts/local/data That is a major break in the migration from 11.5 to CP4D. We would like not to precise...
25 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Improve modifying email notification settings and applying email certificates

The interface to apply email settings in IBM Software Hub isn't user friendly. We are now required to update our email certificates every 45 days. The current interface has us enter the new email certificate but we are unable to save our changes u...
about 1 month ago in DataStage Under review

Datastage ability to mount nfs and run software as a user

Allow better integration to ldap users in Datastage in order to run software and mount nfs share as a user. Today nfs mounts show as user 999 (unknown user) and this is not acceptable from a security point of view. Also the customer uses encryptio...
about 1 month ago in DataStage Under review

Ensure Job Compilation Parity Across DataStage Interfaces

Problem: There should be functional parity in BASIC code generation across all DataStage job compilation methods, including: • Thick client (legacy Designer)• DataStage Flow Designer (DFD)• Server-side / REST API compilation Currently, jobs can co...
about 1 month ago in DataStage Under review

Support of special characters in table and column names - Datastage and watsonx.data intelligence

We are using watsonx.data intelligence SaaS or watsonx.data intelligence on-prem Data Quality feature. In case we are working with database which has non-latin (e.g. Hungarian) special characters in table and column name the autogenerated Datastag...
about 1 month ago in DataStage Under review

Looking for the "Use Connection String" option in Slowly_Changing_Dimension stage Surrogate Key.

Hello IBM Team, The Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) stage with Surrogate Key functionality currently lacks a "Use Connection String" option for configuring database connections. We are requesting the addition of a "Use Connection String" configura...
2 months ago in DataStage Submitted

Make it easier to find out which lookup reference link has duplicates

If you have a flow with a lookupstage with several lookup links and one of those has duplicates on the key, then you get a warning message with which you can find out which stage caused the warning, but unfortunately not which link. We have flows ...
2 months ago in DataStage Submitted

GIT for Datastage NG (based on review with customer)

Together with the customer we validated the initial version of Git for Datastage NG. Customer is using Datastage NG based on CPD 5.2.1 in production since y25. As the idea comprises a lot of aspects including diagrams, we created a document and ad...
3 months ago in DataStage Under review

Fix that adding a lookupstage removes sort information from a link

If you sort data on a link (or mark it as sorted with a sort stage and don't sort previously sorted), then this information is lost (the information that the data is sorted, not the sorting itself) if there is a lookupstage downstream (that does n...
3 months ago in DataStage Submitted

ELT on Spark (Cloudera + Databricks)

Numerous customers are using Talend Big Data (ETL tool converting design in Spark code to run on Hadoop clusters). Talend recently raised their price and many customers are evaluating competition. There are many opportunities for Datastage but any...
3 months ago in DataStage Under review