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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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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

Update the permission of file and folder created as part of volume connector

While using Volume connector, the folders/files getting created with it were with 750 and 644 permission respectively. Expectation is to have the files or folder created with 664 and 775 respectively. Reference case:TS019729960
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

User should be created automatically from connected group (LDAP/SAML/OIDC) and not after the first login

LDAP/SAML/OIDC connected user groups users are not automatically created as CP4D users. This restrict user administrators to give further permissions for the users like adding category roles
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 7

Software Hub support for Hashicorp Vault authentication using AppRole role id/secret id

Software Hub and Cloud Pak for Data services allow for vault and secrets using an external HashiCorp vault integration. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=2-managing-secrets-vaults#vaults__vaults-overview However, this configurat...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 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

Possibility to use threshold for Real Diff. (=transaction currency amount) in IC reports

When running the Group/Reconcile/Intercompany Balances Report we are only interested in the Real difference, i.e. the difference in the reported amount between a debtor and a creditor in the transaction currency . The IC report includes however bo...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Lock direct form access for the correction of journals in Controller Web Reconciliation tab

For reconciliation errors ‘Between Accounts’ and ‘Opening Balances’, users are able to correct a journal reconciliation error by opening a form and entering an amount to correct the reconciliation error. This amount, as entered by form, appears in...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios to support Enterprise Customers' requirements for failover/BC/DR
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Allowing Calculation Accounts to by run by Closing Versions

When running Calculation Reports, Users need to select journal types one by one manually. They would prefer to be able to select all the journals per Closing version instead so that they are sure nothing is mis-selected or left out. This report is...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration