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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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Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0

Jobs API - have synchronous call to launch Datastage jobs

One of our customer (CNP in France) is evaluating the CP4D-DataStage. They have DataStage 11.5 and actually migrating to 11.7. They have a framework (BASIC code that orchestrates the DataStage jobs) that is the centerpiece of their DataStage proje...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

CP4D - Would like to be able to delete multiple jobs at the same time in the GUI

While the asset browser now allows selection of multiple assets for deletion in most places, the "job" view has no such selection and jobs must be selected one at a time and then deleted. The GUI should offer the same type of selection boxes for j...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Import JSON schema definition

We want to integrate files in JSON format, the JSON schema file is available. We use the Hierarchical stage. But when we want to import this definition into the libraries (datastage componant / schema library / add resource) the file is treated as...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Workday connector

Workday unites HR and finance on one AI platform to help elevate humans and supercharge work to keep business moving forever forward. As Workday has become an integral part of the companies employee relationship process, it would be ideal to have ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Missing Error Message, when no default runtime is present

We now had two times the problem, that we didn't get a proper error message, if no default runtime on a project was set. We would like to have a clear error message "no default runtime set" to not waste days of searching and comunicating with the ...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

#emea #csm #mea Integrate IBM Knowledge Catalog Governance into DataStage Flows

Issue: Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data, data protection rules defined within Watson Knowledge Catalog are not directly applied to DataStage flows, even when governed assets from the catalog are used. This creates confusion and a sense that no...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 3 Future consideration