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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Compatibility with SAP S/4 HANA 2021

Our company is upgrading from SAP ECC to SAP S/4 2021. We use datastage to retrieve data from SAP via SAP PACK for application 8.2.0.1. Our existing jobs continue to work with S/4 2021. On the other hand, it is not possible to generate a new ABAP ...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Share WKC Metadata by column with DataStage

(I'll post a second Idea with Watson Studio also) When Data Assets have been documented/Business Metadata has been added, like Description, Business Term and so, this is a great value for Data Engineers. They need this information to build their d...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Oracle Pluggable database support during installation

Cann't install InfoSphere Information Server without direct port configuration or oracle legacy adjustments(support of SID format) on container database. The internal XMETA database cann't be configured on the pluggable database. Pluggable databas...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add FTPS functionality in FTP Enterprise stage

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage would be able to authenticate using Azure active directory using Oauth2

Currently there is no option to use the password less authentication Oauth while connecting to Azure platform. the central team over here is preffering to have Oauth. Request you to consider this as a work request.
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Request to easily integrate custom scripts into the managed, SaaS DataStage Runtime

Our company is using Cloud Pak for Data as a managed service, which means we don't have direct access to the OpenShift platform or any of the pods or servers that run the Cloud Pak services, like the DataStage server. Occasionally with on-prem Dat...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Unable to read SQL stements from file using Goole BigQuery Connector stage.

Need to be able to read SQL stements from file using Goole BigQuery Connector stage.
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Partitioned reads from Google BigQuery should permit selection of column used to generate the partition query

BigQuery database supports partitioning of tables like range partitioning and time partitioning. If the table is already partitioned on the database side, then that particular column will be used to create the partition queries: https://cloud.goog...
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

IIS IDR Integration via KAFKA

DataStage:Kafka Connector in Information Server 11.7 does not support the use of schema registry or Avro JSON serialisation/deserialisation. IIDR (CDC) for Kafka on the other hand, produces Avro JSON serialised records into topics as default. Usin...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DataStage Flow Designer Integration with Git

We have started using Git for maintaining our DataStage codebase. We're able to publish/load the jobs to/from Git repo successfully. However, if we want to publish multiple jobs to the Git repository at once, current version of DataStage Flow Desi...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration