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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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CP4D - Cloudera Impala Connector - Truststore/SSL

In Legacy DataStage, we use connect to Hive/Impala using a cacerts which is defined that sever level. we just pass the location of the cacerts and datastage is intelligent enough to use that cacerts and establish the connectivity. But in CP4D we d...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

CP4D - Restrict multiple users simultaneously opening the same flow to make changes - Addition of version name to the Dialog box.

This is in continuation of case #TS015396049. As of today, When two users open the same flow and one user change the flowed and saved it. There is a popup which gets displayed with the second user on who changed it and time as well. in addition to...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Skip the zombie service instances when terminating ego service after having signaled and waited for a configurable time interval

Our observation, as it takes us forever to complete the termination of an ego service with zombie processes. Symphony termination action stuck with the ego service instance process tree when there is a zombie process exist. The only way of workaro...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Filters on RDS With Composite Keys

Filtering on a large RDS is cumbersome especially when you want to narrow down a specific combination of a code and two or more composite keys. Please add an option to filter on the "Key" (code|composite key 1|composite key 2)
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 6 Under review

Enhance Category Selection for Metadata Enrichment by adding an option to choose between using only Primary categories or including Secondary categories.

This enhancement would provide users with the flexibility to select whether to include only Primary categories or to expand their selection to include Secondary categories when identifying Data Classes or Business Terms for analysis. By offering t...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to filter by Status in the Metadata Import process.

This enhancement would enable users to apply filters based on the status of metadata items during the import process. By incorporating a Status filter, users can efficiently manage their metadata by quickly identifying items relevant to their curr...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

Enable the ability to create custom asset objects directly through the user interface.

Currently, users can only create custom asset objects using the REST API, which may be challenging for those who are not familiar with API interactions. By adding support for creating custom asset types directly through the user interface, users w...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

Automation of code (UNIX scripts) deployment to storage volumes for CPD DataStage service

This is for automation of code especially unix scripts used for ETL batch processing by DataStage service on CPD platform. DataStage service needs storage volumes for processing files which are accessible by both conductor & compute PODs on CP...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

Salesforce API Stage Connectivity for DataStage - need mutual authentication supported

Citi has a mandate that all connection to salesforce should be mutually authenticate. Any connection to salesforce should be through mutual auth port 8443 and certificate to be passed all time Below is the link, that explains about setting up mutu...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Under review