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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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Salesforce API Stage Connectivity for DataStage - need mutual authentication supported

Citi has a mandate that all connection to salesforce should be mutually authenticate. Any connection to salesforce should be through mutual auth port 8443 and certificate to be passed all time Below is the link, that explains about setting up mutu...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Under review

Add a support for processing CDC data for "uuid, json, jsonb" data types in PostgreSQL.

Product: StreamSets Data Collector. Stage: PostgreSQL CDC Client Please add a support for "PostgreSQL CDC Client" to process the data with "uuid, json, jsonb" data types.
7 months ago in StreamSets 2

Customize the grpc route

IBM gives us the option of customizing the cpd route: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=platform-modifying-route But not the grpc-cpd route. Can you set up a procedure to have the same possibility?
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

CPD - audit event for DataStage project level changes

We are using DataStage service of Cloud Pak for Data on ROSA. For audit purpose we need email alerts triggered whenever there are changes done at DataStage project level on CPD. few examples are given below. IBM case TS019250604 was submitted and ...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Under review

Runtime resource files - support for encryption and decryption at runtime within the pipeline using keys from azure key vault

Humana is successful with using exec function in credential store by fetching encryption keys from Azure key vault. They are looking for similar feature/implementation for resource files, specifically encrypting resource files and decrypting them ...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 3 Not under consideration

Check for and prevent multiple parameters with the same key name

In the May 21, 2025 Control Hub update, we introduced a new feature in the API regarding pipeline parameters. This feature introduced an issue in an edge case (the presence of duplicate parameters) which we did not anticipate. As a followup in the...
7 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Ability to setup Maintenance Mode to prevent users from login and executing new job's.

Hi Team, As Admin team has the responsibility of maintaining CPD environment for datastage, we wanted check if we can enable a capability to add a Maintenance Mode to prevent users from logging and initiate any of the new job's. We need this capab...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Snowflake CDC

Snowflake is central part of our ecosystem and multiple producers and consumer components are exchanging data through it. The lack of CDC support for snowflake table means we'll have to configure a poll at certain duration which will incur cost - ...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Not under consideration

Add a dedicated Postgres JDBC Producer with MERGE support similar to what we have recently done for Oracle

Add a dedicated Postgres JDBC Producer with MERGE support similar to what we have recently done for Oracle
7 months ago in StreamSets 1 Under review

Provide an easy and supportable way to have StreamSets write its logs in JSON format by including the log4j-layout-template-json-2.xx.x.jar

Provide an easy and supportable way to have StreamSets write its logs in JSON format. This would allow much easier Datadog integration, as Datadog prefers to deal with JSON-based logs As mentioned here: https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/log_configur...
7 months ago in StreamSets 1 Under review