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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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In DataStage, wildcards in the Azure Data Lake Storage connector are only allowed the filename, not in the filepath

In the Azure Data Lake Storage connector DataStage can read multiple files at once by specifying wildcards. But these wildcards are only allowed in the filename, not in the filepath. This means that all the files we want to read have to be present...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Extend Schema Registry support to non-Kafka sources

CP4D support for the use of a Schema Registry is currently limited to Kafka data sources (ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=catalogs-apache-kafka-connection). However, Schema Registries represent a valuable method ens...
almost 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Request for support of GCP BQ as Reporting store in ICP4D

Currently we are writing icp4d reporting into postgresql DB but we need to store this data in GCP BQ and ICP4D does not support it. We are requesting to add support for GCP Bigquery as a reporting store destination in ICP4D.
8 months ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Connectivity to Azure Table Storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Hi, I have a business requirement for us to be able to connect to Azure Table Storage to get the technical metadata from the tables which are stored there. Can you please make this connector become available in the next release. The connectors tha...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Devops pipeline in CP4D - automated deployment to next environment

Our team manages over 300 developers working on various projects in CP4D, utilizing a diverse array of assets. Due to ITSS requirements, it's essential to maintain a clear separation of duties between developers who implement solutions and the ope...

Need download option for Standardization ruleset and match specs on CP4D for DataStage similar to DataStage 11.7.

We don't see download option for Standardization ruleset and match specs on CP4D which is available on DataStage 11.7. We need download option for Standardization ruleset and match specs on CP4D for DataStage
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Download cpdctl through IBM container registry

We've seen that a useful binary for cloudpak: oc-ibm_pak is distributed via your container registry.Would it be possible to do the same for the cpdctl binary? Info: https://github.com/IBM/ibm-pak Download from IBM container registry This system wo...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

IIAS-only connector ( like as Netezza)

Nowadays, we should use "db2 connector " when we develop job in IIAS ( IBM Integrated Analytics System)So they want to use 'IIAS-only connector' like as Netezza connector. If we have no plan for IIAS-only connector then they want to separate DB2 a...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Data Direct Driver for Presto DB Connectivity

Need Data Direct ODBC/JDBC Driver to connect to the Presto DB. Currently Presto DB Connectivity is certified using JDBC Driver with external Simba JDBC Presto Driver but not through internal/native Data Direct Drivers.
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Support of external OS authentication in Oracle optimized connector

None of the Oracle connectors in Cloud Pak for Data supports external OS authentication whereas IIS did support it. As we know from legacy that external OS authentication method requires DataStage user (like dsadm) to be created in Oracle DB, to a...
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration