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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    Allow Parameterization of Port in Connection

    If we could parameterize the port like all the string fields, we could easily use parameter sets to swap between servers/Dbs in dev/prod environment scenarios. Right now, you have to just use the parameter set and parameterize everything in every ...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Under review

    Allow Better Aggregation Stage options such as the same column with multiple aggs or count option within the calculation option.

    We have a need to do multiple aggregations on the same column for a grouping. 1. Sum it, 2. Count rows. You cannot use the same column twice, and count is not even an option within the calculation section, it is a separate option and exclusive.
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

    To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

    Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
    5 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Under review

    Show more job details like in Datastage Director 11.7

    Would be great to see if a job is scheduled, what the schedule is, etc. from one screen like we can in 11.7
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

    Watson Pipeline - Allow dragging flows onto canvas

    It is tedious to go into a flow node a bunch of times one at a time. On 11.7 we can just drag flows onto a sequence. This is a major time drag on CP4DAAS.
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

    Allow Db2 columnar table replication to watsonx.data

    Truist has obtained 3M+ of Data Replication entitlements in Q1 of 2025 to replicate data from Exadata and Db2 WH to Snowflake. Db2 WH table are all in columnar format and Truist would like for the tables to stay the same way. Our current proposed ...
    6 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Submitted

    Integrate Qreplication automation with Pacemaker

    Pacemaker if can control stop/start/status q-replication , that will be a great help in making sure q-replication is up and running . Currently we have a solution to do similarly in TSA, but with TSA getting deprecated soon we would like to have t...
    about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Future consideration

    Add better pipeline failure notification stages/connectors like 11.7 on prem

    We should have access to a Email Notification stage like on prem 11.7 has to allow us to notify an email group for failures and add specific job log/runtime data to the email. Not having this causes a lot of manual checking on jobs, and the built-...
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

    Request for supporting MQ automatic client reconnect

    As we know, IBM MQ supports multi-instance configuration and automatic client reconnect since version 7.0.1. Recently we found the latest Q-Relication (11.4.0) even not support such a basic function( automatic client reconnect with multi-instance ...
    over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 1 Future consideration

    Read DataSet Full Volume Or with filtered Data

    Looking for feature something, like we can grep the row in the dataset file or any filters on the columns can be applied to fetch the matching records like Something like CPDCTL dsjob view-dataset <dataset-name> <schema-file> WHERE COL...
    9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

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