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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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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.

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Information Server 11.7.1.5 certify Teradata TTU v20

RBC currently has over 50 projects with more than 10,000 jobs running on Teradata v17.20. The Teradata DB is scheduled to be upgraded to v20 in January 2026. However, TTU v20 is not yet certified with IIS 11.7.1.5, and the minimum required IIS ver...
about 1 year ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Capture repository events, such as project or job deletions.

For security reasons, we need audit logs that track changes to show that a user has deleted a project or a job. Information Server auditing does not capture repository events, such as project or job deletions. Hence it will not be possible to dete...
3 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Support OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow in DataStage Salesforce Connector

Support OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow in DataStage Salesforce Connector Description: The current connector supports User-Password and JWT Bearer flows; however, Salesforce no longer recommends the User-Password Flow due to security concerns. T...
4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
10 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Under review

Add/enable connection from DataStage to confluent cloud topics having OAUTH support for schema registry.

We are trying to connect to confluent cloud topic from on-prem Datastage with kafka connector used in jobs.To connect for confluent cloud topic we select OAUTHBEARER property in kafka connector. According to our use case, we are facing issue while...
10 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

SQLDI Install Enhancements

The SQLDI install process needs to be enhanced to cater for separation of duty responsibilities, and it must not make assumptions about the config it is being installed in to. The following enhancements are required: 1. The install currently check...
6 months ago in IBM SQL Data Insights 0 Submitted

Amazon S3 Connector write to Iceberg table format

We are a large government organisation with a mature on prem-hosted DataStage (11.7.1.6) requiring to write to AWS Iceberg tables. We note the Amazon S3 stage on IBM Cloud DataPlatform supports writing to Iceberg tables but not on-prem Datastage. ...
7 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Integrate Information Service Director with Swagger

We have created a REST API using Information Services director (ISD) which invokes a DataStage job. We want to expose the API operations (GET,POST,DELETE,PUT) to swagger so that API documentation can be done from swagger.
over 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

How get a list of users authorized to work on specific project via command line

Often customer ask me for a list of users allowed to work on a specific project. I can't find a way to do this via command line , and the only way I founded is to open graphically the administrator , select that project and take a screenshot of th...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

Please consider access control for IGC assets

The requirement is to have access control on IGC assets ( IMAM, OpenIGCAssets) for different asset levels (ie. host, database, schema ) based on users roles or their ownership.
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release