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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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Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Provided feature to disable GSKit session cache which is enabled by default.

In order to decrypt I need to have GSKit session cache disabled if the connection is resumed. Alternatively, Please also have the pre-master secret file created for the session
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Import JSON schema definition

We want to integrate files in JSON format, the JSON schema file is available. We use the Hierarchical stage. But when we want to import this definition into the libraries (datastage componant / schema library / add resource) the file is treated as...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Workday connector

Workday unites HR and finance on one AI platform to help elevate humans and supercharge work to keep business moving forever forward. As Workday has become an integral part of the companies employee relationship process, it would be ideal to have ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Under review

I would like to have Db2 11.5.5.1 supported in a Power10 environment on AIX Ver. 7.2 TL5 SP2.

In order to implement Power10, the customer plans to migrate their current AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2 environment to the new Power10 environment. However, their current version of Db2, version 11.5.5.1, is not supported, so they would like to have it support...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Missing Error Message, when no default runtime is present

We now had two times the problem, that we didn't get a proper error message, if no default runtime on a project was set. We would like to have a clear error message "no default runtime set" to not waste days of searching and comunicating with the ...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

DB2 LUW version of z/OS Utility Estimator

reference to: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/soo-kim/2025/02/27/introducing-new-db2-utility-reorg-estimation-featu We would like a DB2 LUW version of the z/OS Utility Estimator to help estimate the duration of planned offline table...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

#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

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