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.

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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 ...
    7 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 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

    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

    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

    Schema Validation using Avro File Format under File Connector stage (AvroStreams)

    Schema Validation exists with old avro1.x version but not with Avrostreams. Schema vadliation should be always available Avrostreams which avoid CLASSPATH setting.
    11 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

    Paging through many data assets

    My project team has tens of thousands of data assets in a project and they need to work with all of those assets from the assets view, but it's difficult to do so (in version 5.1.3). They want to publish all the data assets to a catalog. 1) They c...
    3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

    We need new Installer which can support installing IIS with Db2 v12.1 directly

    We are building an IIS environment with IIS v11.7.1.6 and Db2 v12.1.5.I see that Db2 v12.1.5 is supported recently. InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.6 Service Pack 3 Announcement How to upgrade Db2 11.5 to version 12.1 for IBM InfoSphere Infor...
    30 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

    More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - limit available data source options

    The list of data sources in CP4D is very large and a lot of them are irrelevant to our users. There should be an option to limit what data source options are visible for users. And as an option it would allow restriction to apply so that users can...
    4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

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