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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Enable Random Sampling in Data Preview

In IBM Cloud Pak for Data, the preview functionality currently displays 1,000 consecutive records from the dataset. This approach often does not represent the overall content, since consecutive rows may contain similar or homogeneous data. The pro...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

transformation rules outside of DataStage

We now have transformation rules outside of DataStage, so if there's a change, we do not need a DataStage engineer to change this transformation rule.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Denodo support

We need Denodo support for DataStage using the Denodo JDBC drivers. Currently JDBC can be used, but connecting to Denodo is not supported by IBM.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

ICP4D Should remove the connection reference for catalog assets/Deleted the referenced assets from catalog and project if the connection deleted from platform connection.

We are getting connection id details for catalog data asset in v3 API response but unable to find the connection details. Expectation: 1. ICP4D Should remove the connection reference for catalog assets if the connection deleted from platform conne...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data 2 Under review

Implement a project search feature that allows users to filter and search for projects based on connection type (e.g., DB2).

Implement a project search feature that allows users to filter and search for projects based on connection type (e.g., DB2). This enhancement would enable users to easily find all projects associated with a specific connection type, improving effi...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Allow additional parameter configurations, like transaction isolation level, during DB2 connection setup

Currently, options such as setting the transaction isolation level are only available in the 'Generic JDBC' connector. By enabling these settings directly within the DB2 connection setup, users will have greater flexibility and control over connec...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Connector for SAP Datasphere

Idea based on feedback from customer using CPDaaS when working for SAP OData Connector. Customer wants to connect to SAP Datasphere. Customer sees great potential in linking CPD aaS to SAP Datasphere. One of the reaon for the idea/request of the c...
7 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

DataStage Oracle/ODBC connector stage performance

We have IBM InfoSphere Platform and thousands of DataStage Jobs. Lot of these jobs use Oracle and ODBC connector Stage to connect to Oracle DBaaS database. These stages are running queries against system tables frequently and causing performance d...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Multiple parallel session are running for Datastage cloudpak flows/pipelines

Hi Team, We see that our cloudpak datastage flows/pipelines can be triggered/run parallelly with multiple session at same time. That should not be the case. If one session is already running, another parallel session can not be triggered. This may...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted