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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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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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Supporting clang++ 16.0.6 & up in spectrum symphony 7.3.2

A lot of applications are using clang++ at Morgan Stanley, we'd like to have spectrum symphony officially supporting clang++ 16.0.6 & up. clang++-16.0.6 clang++-18.1.3 clang++-20.1.5
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Bringing a Classic ETL Tool into the Modern Data Era

For decades, IBM DataStage has been a cornerstone of enterprise data integration. Known for its robustness, parallel processing engine, and strong ETL capabilities, DataStage powered many large-scale data warehouses long before cloud-native tools ...
4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable Table/Schema/Database-Level Filtering When Searching Database Columns in Custom Attribute Relationships

Hello, In IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC), we have configured custom attributes with relationships addressing database columns to define primary data source references. However, due to the scale of our organization, the current dropdown ...
5 months ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Submitted

We would like to have global variable to specify work directory in shared location separate from Config directory

Shared directory for high availability in spectrum symphony cluster usually reside on NAS shares. Since work dir is part of shared directory folders, when NAS shares are backed up using snapshot, work folder with history/paging creates large size ...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

DataStage incorporates multiple open-source components. To ensure system stability and operational consistency, any behavioral changes resulting from updates to these bundled open-source components should be managed and absorbed by the DataStage installer. This approach prevents disruptions during system deployment and post-deployment operations.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
about 1 year ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Under review

Log extra information in lim log at info level to track lim performance especially at the communication level

We have been observing primary LIM queue getting full on several occasion on the cloud environments. This leads to unavailable hosts and sometimes in SSM(s) getting killed due to hosts being removed from the grid because of the unavailability. We ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

InfoSphere Information Server support Linux on Power architecture

We have Power equipment with Linux OS and need to install IIS on this platform.
over 10 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

.Net 10 support for Symphony 7.3.2

.NET 8 is EOL in November. can we add .Net 10 support for both Linux and Windows. Internally we have mandate to migrate off .NET 8 as LTS is ending.
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

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

Feature request - AWS user config on DataStage

IBM DataStage needs the ability to export data from on-premise into AWS. The IBM DataStage product is not able to assume an AWS role. The data moved into AWS will be placed into an S3 bucket. We have an exception placed to have this task accomplis...
3 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Under review