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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Add Business Process Visualizations feature to TFUI

Business Process Visualizations feature where users can create process diagrams in OP (using ProcessDiagram, DataInput, DataOutput object types) was only available in the Standard UI and retired in 8.3. Many clients use an external tool to create ...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Datagate should replicate z/OS indexes

- When adding a table, datagate should offer the opportunity to import, after table loading, zOS existing indexes
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

DataStage/OEM Compatibility with Windows 2022

We use DataStage 11.7 version in windows 2016 as of now and we create runtime deployment DataStage job artifacts to run through OEM package. Now we are considering to upgrade our system with windows 2022. We need any DataStage version or it's OEM ...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 2 Under review

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Application rotation or maintenance of created files in /tmp (ex. snappy)

The product leaves temporary files into /tmp directory that are not properly taked care of. That means that external processes must be carried out in order to not flood that directory. Could you please implement into the product any mean of addres...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Enhance MettleCI Workbench ServiceNow integration to allow credential specification

We understand that ServiceNow OAuth authentication is a three-way process, Workbench, after initial Oauth handshaking, submits a third party credential to be responsible for the actual queries. We also understand that currently, the third party cr...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 2 Under review

Ability to add a "filter expression" to a ServiceNow configuration in MettleCI Workbench

MettleCI Workbench uses ServiceNow's GET /now/table/{tableName} endpoint (and similarly for other WIM systems) to search for issues. The actual REST call performed is generated based on the ServiceNow IssueManagement configuration and search terms...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Data Module: Combine fact tables (like a presentation layer)

I want to have the capabilities to regroup measures(columns) from different tables into one folder. In other words, having the possibility of using a presentation layer which reference the measures. At the moment, I have to make my user navigate t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE - Enhance Kafka property files to store encrypted password for MDM Kafka publishing

Currently IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE v12 is not supporting to encrypt the Kafka user/password when publishing MDM message to external kafka server. IBM PMR team suggested to enter clear text password in wsjaas.conf file to pass the u...
almost 3 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

DataStage Kafka Connector should support schema compatibility set to FULL

Kafka Connector job failed with schema compatibility mode set to FULL. We got error "Schema being registered is incompatible with an earlier schema; error code: 409". Currently user has to change the Kafka schema compatibility mode to NONE from Po...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review