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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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Introduce Finite Default Retry Configuration in Pipeline

Currently, the default retry configuration is set to infinite retries (-1). In many real-world scenarios, this behavior is not useful — for example, when a job encounters persistent errors such as START_ERROR, it continues retrying indefinitely. T...
5 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Enable reading NUMBER(1) columns in New Oracle CDC stage as INTEGER rather than BYTE

There is an existing CI in the old system for this; adding it to the Ideas portal for customer visibility. StreamSets documentation explains that we convert Oracle's Number type to SDC data types based on precision and scale, converting NUMBER fie...
over 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Idenitfy code with duplicate functionality

A few customers I have talked to have asked how WCA4Z can identify duplicate code for them as part of the understand and refactor phases. Customers tend to have duplicate code across their applications that can be consolidated into reusable servic...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Planned for future release

AWS_MSK_IAM SASL_MECHANISM support for Kafka stages

Ability to use connections to connect to Kafka endpoint, access provided through IAM role via the AWS_MSK_IAM SASL mechanism. Currently, Kafka stages allows Security Protocol=CUSTOM for manually configuring Java Properties for the Kafka Client, bu...
11 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Orchestrator connection - Test connection must check that API creds are valid for the organization

This is related to the : Support Case TS020495554: "Connection is successful using API Credential from another Organization", Engineering intervention: INT-3683. Please check the attachment for detailed steps to reproduce the issue. Issue: Humana ...
5 months ago in StreamSets 4 Not under consideration

Add support for top level union schemas in Kafka Avro schema support

Support top-level unions for Avro schemas instead of just top-level record schemas. Example top-level union: ["null", { "type": "record", "name": "SampleRecord", "fields": [ { "name": "id", "type": "string" }, { "name": "name", "type": "strin...
11 months ago in StreamSets 2 Not under consideration

Support to load LIST-MAP field type to Object Data Type in Snowflake

LexisNexis is consuming data from MongoDB and writing to Snowflake. The consumer stage always returns all fields as LIST-MAP type. Requesting to extend support for LIST-MAP fields to load into Object datatype? This would help us avoid additional t...
11 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

StreamSets Job Transfer to Different Engines

Currently we have various deployment and Data Collector Engines and at time due to Engine not responding, or creating a new version, or changing configuration on the Engine, we have to restart or replace an Engine, this process is not straight for...
5 months ago in StreamSets 1 Functionality already exists

SSO - Federation for developer users

Currently with SaaS deployment only admins requires IBM ID, developers need then to be added 'locally' by administrator.We have a RFP for WCA (general) SaaS, target is 5K developers. 5K developers is using managing manually, and client is asking f...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Direct Integration with Vault

In our specific case we use both Azure Key Vault as well as Hashicorp Vault. The current setup lacks an inbuilt capability to read secrets from the vault. App apps will need a safe enough mechanism to store the credentials, keys, certificates etc ...
11 months ago in StreamSets 0 Functionality already exists