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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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BPM designer should not use dropdowns for critical settings

When hovering over a dropdown, eclipse lets you update it with scrollwheel and doesn't force you to click it first. Unless the dropdown update behavior can be prevented when not clicked, these critical settings should use other UI modules, like ra...
about 1 month ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

FastMap to validate dependent picklists and hidden enum values

We'd like the ability to make FastMap imports do the following two extra validations:1) check that dependent picklist values match their controlling field values2) check that enum values are not currently listed as hidden values
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

Writing Iceberg data format working with specific catalog (for example Dremio)

Hi Using CPD Datastage tool, we can write a data in Iceberg format using Generic S3 component. But we want to write this iceberg format data that we wrote to a Storage volume to a desired catalog (Hive, Nessie, etc.). In this transfer, we cannot s...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Create an option on the UI to Duplicate a connection in Datastage

Currently we have an option to create duplicate pipelines and flows, but not the connection. It would help the developers if there is an option to create duplicate connection
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Submitted

concerns password management policy, specifically increasing the level of their complexity

the current version of the product lacks the following two functionalities that significantly increase the level of security and complexity of passwords, namely: blocking the possibility of the same characters appearing consecutively in the passwo...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 4 Under review

Preview for row generator in DataStage

Preview is not offered for row generator, but only for data connections. In the legacy Designer all source stages had a preview option. This is particularly important for a a row generator when you want to check if the generated content is like ex...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Make the UI actually usable

The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 4 Under review

Show full timestamp in listings

The “Date Created” column displays relative timestamps (e.g., “A year ago”) instead of the actual date and time. This is unhelpful, as it obscures precise information unless hovered over. Please display the full timestamp by default. This issue ex...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

PXRuntime no down time support for Walmart

We need a product enhancement to support no down time during the OpenShift maintenance. OpenShift maintenance typically requires node restart. If DataStage PXRuntime pods were running on those worker nodes, the jobs will fail. If we have a control...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0

Increased SSO Connection Monitoring

In our OpenPages instance we recently had three documented short but total outages, lasting for a few minutes each. In all of them, the Support team noticed the logs indicating SSO errors, but we made sure, in all occurrences, that we did not have...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Functionality already exists