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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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OpenPages Scheduler - allow client to set max concurrent jobs and display any that are queued.

Currently the system has a hard wired limit of 5 concurrently executing schedule jobs. You can start a sixth one but the system actually queues it to start when one of the others completes. However, the system does not provide any display to show ...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Future consideration

OpenPages - Entity Filtered list in tree format

Provide Business Entity parent selection in creation views as a tree format.
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Under review

#emea #csm #mea Integrate IBM Knowledge Catalog Governance into DataStage Flows

Issue: Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data, data protection rules defined within Watson Knowledge Catalog are not directly applied to DataStage flows, even when governed assets from the catalog are used. This creates confusion and a sense that no...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 3 Future consideration

Calculations -- FOR Loops

Calculations often require a long list of 'if/elif/else' statements (sometimes over 100 of them) to account for a lot of management of lists and larger inputs. Adding a For loop would significantly reduce the complexity and maintenance of large ca...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration

Azure Synapse supported for ELT run mode

We have many customers who have an appetite for cost-reduction with their cloud warehouses. We have had multiple conversations with customers around leveraging Datastage writing to S3 in iceberg format, to be integrated with the warehouse like Sno...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Add last date any component in the configuration pane was modified and user

We would like to have last day somebody modified workflow/jobs/views... in order to trace it back to a date and a person.
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

HELM Charts for DataStage Deployment

The impact right now is to change the process and add additional workarounds for datastage at the enterprise level. As a organization, HELM has been adopted as a standard since its an industry level standard for quite sometime. This also allow mor...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Improved clarity of NFS mount points in DataStage

When configuring NFS mount points in datastage, it is not possible to define a name for the mount pointFor example: if I mount /mnts/tata/dev, in the asset "asset browser" when creating the stream. If I choose “DataStage persistent volume”, I'll s...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Improve JSON String Production/Creation

There is an existing known issue documented here . “The schema library manager does not support import of a JSON schema that is based on the IETF (Internet Engineering Task force) JSON schema internet draft.” The lack of support for JSON standard ...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review