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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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  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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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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago in DataStage Under review

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...
4 months ago in DataStage Under review

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...
4 months ago in DataStage Under review

Enhancement request – Add OAuth (IAM Identity Center Trusted Identity Propagation) to IBM CP4D DataStage Redshift connector

Hi, we are using IBM-CP4D-DataStage with Remote Engine configuration (Hybrid). Summary: using Our security requirement is to avoid local Redshift DB users/passwords and use AWS‑recommended OAuth/TIP via IAM Identity Center. Current IBM documentati...
4 months ago in DataStage Under review

IIS Microservices tier, Client certificate support for 4096-bit certificates

There is a requirement to update All our certificates to 4096-bit, as mandated by The company central PKI team. It looks like The Datastage services (WebSphere) tier can support 4096-bit, the IIS certificate for the server that hosts the Microserv...
6 months ago in DataStage Under review

We need a connector for Apache Iceberg connector in CP4D Datastage.

We need a connector for Apache Iceberg in CP4D Datastage. Since Big Data platform in our company is converted to Iceberg catalogues they asked us to integrate data through CP4D, currently no support is given due to this limitation. Thanks
8 months ago in DataStage Under review

SFTP connections with SAP

The TE cybersecurity is requesting to secure the SAP FTP transfers, check if they have a SAP connector for DataStage to allow to do SFTP connections? This enhancement is requested as per of Security enhancement in production environment as FtP con...
8 months ago in DataStage Under review