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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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Oracle DataStage Connector Should Automatically Serialize XMLTYPE Columns to LONGVARBINARY Instead of Requiring Explicit getBlobVal() in Every Query

I have an oracle table with a column of type XMLTYPE. I have a flow where, using oracle-datastage conenctor, I try to cast this xml data into LONGVARBINARY type to be used in the flow. They are receiving the following error when trying to run that...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Connect to SAP Datasphere as a datasource for connection and for IKC.

SAP Datasphere is a new data warehouse from SAP competing with Snowflake, Google Bigquery, Azure Redshift, Db2 and other data catalog solutions for SAP data. Clients who are deploying SAP would use Datasphere for connecting, managing, cataloging a...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

DataDirect jdbc driver for mongodb support balanced string

Then this idea stems from the fact that the customer wanted to connect to mongodb through our jdbc driver, however their mongodb team provided him with a balanced string with a replicaset parameter that allows you to replicate data on the affected...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

FileNet CPE - support for EntraID without ROPC

Currently, it is not possible to deploy Content Platform Engine with Microsoft Entra ID as the identity provider without enabling the ROPC (Resource Owner Password Credentials) flow on the Entra ID side. Content Platform Engine requires a system u...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Oracle NetSuite connector

Customers have a growing amount of ERP and ERP vendors do not like applications to connect to the back end data source. Customer is requesting for the ability to connect to Oracle NetSuite through API or other means. Once the connector is availabl...
11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Needs more information

API Key option in platform connection for db2

Hello Team, I am trying to create platform connection on cp4d portal for db2u deployment but there is no option for API key authentication we need to supply mandatory values i.e. username and password I choose "IBM db2" while creating platform con...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Always on Availability in SQL Server platform connection

We are currently using the SQL Sever Driver in CP4D to connect to a specific database using the CP4D sql server platform connection and it is used for metadata import, metadata enrichment, DQ Rules and Datastage flows for ETLs among other things. ...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Denodo support

We need Denodo support for DataStage using the Denodo JDBC drivers. Currently JDBC can be used, but connecting to Denodo is not supported by IBM.
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Native connector for Yellowbrick bulk transactions

A native bulk loader connector for Yellowbrick would help our customers to improve the performance of the ETL processes that need to move large amounts of data to and from the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse. This connector should work like the nzload ...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration