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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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Extend Schema Registry support to non-Kafka sources

CP4D support for the use of a Schema Registry is currently limited to Kafka data sources (ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=catalogs-apache-kafka-connection). However, Schema Registries represent a valuable method ens...
almost 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Connectivity to Azure Table Storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Hi, I have a business requirement for us to be able to connect to Azure Table Storage to get the technical metadata from the tables which are stored there. Can you please make this connector become available in the next release. The connectors tha...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Support of external OS authentication in Oracle optimized connector

None of the Oracle connectors in Cloud Pak for Data supports external OS authentication whereas IIS did support it. As we know from legacy that external OS authentication method requires DataStage user (like dsadm) to be created in Oracle DB, to a...
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

IIAS-only connector ( like as Netezza)

Nowadays, we should use "db2 connector " when we develop job in IIAS ( IBM Integrated Analytics System)So they want to use 'IIAS-only connector' like as Netezza connector. If we have no plan for IIAS-only connector then they want to separate DB2 a...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Data Direct Driver for Presto DB Connectivity

Need Data Direct ODBC/JDBC Driver to connect to the Presto DB. Currently Presto DB Connectivity is certified using JDBC Driver with external Simba JDBC Presto Driver but not through internal/native Data Direct Drivers.
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Add support for more objects in the Cognos Analytics connector

Currently, the Cognos Analytics (CA) connector only allows cataloguing report and query objects, preventing proper data governance of other CA objects using IBM Knowledge Catalog. Extending support for other object types, such as Framework Models,...
9 months ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Include 'NTLM' as an authentication method in DataStage Hierarchical stage

We have an important project that needs to source the data from the SharePoint page. The default authentication method in our SharePoint farm is 'NTLM' which is not supported by Hierarchical stage. It's impossible to enable the other method on our...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

HTML Hyperlinks in Cognos

We would like to suggest activating back HTML Hyperlinks in Cognos. This is a cruically important feature for feature allowing us interact with users in simple and modern way. The feature of HTML hyperlinks was available in Cognos just a few month...

DataStage - Azure [Datalake] Storage Connector - Support parallelism parquet format

From PMR it has been confirmed that: Parallel Read/write - CSV and Delimited only support parallel write operations, rest of all file formats do not support parallel read/write. Parquet format doesn't support parallel read/write It is not document...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Support for Db2 Temporal Joins

Temporal table and Time Travel Queries are a powerful functionality which is not yet supported in Db2 although it has been introduced many years ago. The Join stage needs to be extended for Business-Time otions like "FOR BUSINESS_TIME FROM '1990-0...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration