IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Support CRON expressions for DataStage job schedules in the UI

    We schedule our DataStage ETL jobs from the UI. The scheduler only offers minutely, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly, and each field accepts a single value. Common patterns cannot be defined: every N hours (for example every 8 hours) several ...
    22 days ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - General ideas 0 Submitted

    Support of OpenText as Source in UDI

    The customer is interested in adopting UDI but requires OpenText as data source, which is currently unsupported. This limitation prevents integration of critical enterprise content and blocks broader adoption.
    2 months ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - Unstructured data integration capability 0 Submitted

    Bring MATLAB interface back for CPLEX

    Please bring back the MATLAB interface for CPLEX. We rely heavily on this feature since toolboxes we use are Matlab exclusive.
    over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 35 Future consideration

    AI-Powered Metadata Intelligence for Automated Impact Analysis in Enterprise Data Integration

    As enterprise data ecosystems continue to grow in complexity, impact analysis remains one of the most time-consuming and risk-prone activities in data integration projects. This idea proposes an AI-powered metadata intelligence framework that auto...
    about 2 months ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - General ideas 0 Submitted

    Datastage Generic S3 connection - Iceberg table Hive Catalog sync

    Datastage creates data in iceberg format in S3 object store. Since it does not sync Hive Catalog, data is not visible on Hive and queries does not fetch the results with fresh data.
    3 months ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - Bulk/Batch and ETL/ELT capability 0 Submitted

    A Github integration ensures enterprise-grade governance, automation, and agility for data engineering workflows. By leveraging GitHub and LevelUp tooling, clients gain robust version control, rollback capabilities, and automated testing/deployment for pipelines and DAGs. It reduces operational risk, accelerates delivery, and aligns with modern DevOps practices.

    Large enterprise clients like AT&T, who manage complex data pipelines across hybrid environments, will benefit from streamlined CI/CD processes, improved security, and consistent governance across services. How should it work? GitHub Integra...
    10 months ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - Bulk/Batch and ETL/ELT capability 0 Under review

    Add support for .NET 6 and Linux OS in CPLEX APIs

    We developed a product based on .NET 6 that relies on CPLEX core functionalities and we need to make it run both on Windows an Linux operating systems. The .NET 6 libraries are platform independent but the CPLEX Optimization Studio only provides a...
    about 4 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

    OPL model generation with multithreating

    the OPL model generation uses only 1 core and it takes time.with a pre analysis of the model it could be possible to parallelize some of the model generation.
    almost 6 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

    OPL interface for Matlab

    Would be great to have not only a Matlab interface to CPLEX, but to OPL as well. It would facilitate. model deisgn (.mod) using OPL (way easier than working directly with CPLEX. model modification, re-run, post/pre-processing computations using a ...
    almost 6 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

    IBM Z Common Data Provider template for the User Define SMF Record Type 249 cut by DVM

    The customer is using IBM Z Common Data Provider (zCDP) to stream SMF records in real-time to their Splunk. zCDP provides policies for all the non user define SMF records, the SMF249 is a user define record, hence zCDP can't reference o it, so it ...
    over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 3 Planned for future release

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