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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.

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Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

Salesforce API Stage Connectivity for DataStage - need mutual authentication supported

Citi has a mandate that all connection to salesforce should be mutually authenticate. Any connection to salesforce should be through mutual auth port 8443 and certificate to be passed all time Below is the link, that explains about setting up mutu...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Under review

Customize the grpc route

IBM gives us the option of customizing the cpd route: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=platform-modifying-route But not the grpc-cpd route. Can you set up a procedure to have the same possibility?
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

CPD - audit event for DataStage project level changes

We are using DataStage service of Cloud Pak for Data on ROSA. For audit purpose we need email alerts triggered whenever there are changes done at DataStage project level on CPD. few examples are given below. IBM case TS019250604 was submitted and ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Under review

Need API to get the delta changed information for data assets, Government artifacts, etc

Need API to get the delta-changed information for data assets, Government artifacts, etc Please refer to the SF TS015464391 for detailed information
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

DB2 community edition for Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution.

I have Linux on my computers and have used Ubuntu 22 and 24, I have had no problem running DB2 community edition 12.1 . But I converted to Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution, and the DB2 said it did not recognize my linux distribution. Please make it w...
7 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Ability to setup Maintenance Mode to prevent users from login and executing new job's.

Hi Team, As Admin team has the responsibility of maintaining CPD environment for datastage, we wanted check if we can enable a capability to add a Maintenance Mode to prevent users from logging and initiate any of the new job's. We need this capab...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

CLI to EFS Storage Volumes for Development and Deployment

This is request to have the CLI to access the storage volumes to develop and modify the UNIX Scripts or other files which will be accessed by CP4D. Currently, all the development of the scripts is happening on local unix servers and uploading the ...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Need HTTP proxy support on the Google connectors.

Ford intends to switch authentication method to -> Workload Identity Federation (WIF) with token URL. Our CP4D runs behind a firewall that prevents internet access, so the communication has to be done via Proxy and currently has a HTTP proxy,...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Data transfer between different database schema

Referring to the IBM - TS019130593 - Rational Licensing - 9362997; Database should have the functionality to transfer data between schemas and allow creating new schemas which can be pointed to the IBM ART tool instead of sticking to one ARTDATA.....
7 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Functionality already exists