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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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create a command allowing to update parameters inside a datastage flow or pipeline in a project

We are requesting an option to cpdctl dsjob command (suggestion) which would allow to change the value of the parameter in the datastage flow or pipeline (not to confuse with a Parameter or Parameter set or environment variable). After migration f...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Pull Assets for Deprecated Git Project Where Original Owner Leaves

Problem: When the original owner of a Deprecated Git CPD project leaves an organization (or no longer has an account within CPD), Git Integration for that project breaks. As a result, other users are unable to pull updated assets from GitHub into ...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Show only Move button, not delete button on grid view

I have a business requirement where I need to give access to move the file (under attachments->file object) from one folder to another. In grid view, I want to show only this option: Move. But it is currently showing Delete and Move both option...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Job Details view window limitations

There are actually two problems regarding this Job Details view: 1. There is no easy navigation from a given design view of a flow or pipeline to the corresponding Job Details window 2. There is no way back from this Job Details window back into t...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Add data masking support for BLOB columns

We have some RTF data loaded into the new DB2 Warehouse environment as a BLOB column in table UDF_CIS_RAW_DV.SXACDCLIENTDOCDETAILTEXT_GUID_DETAILTEXT and we're able to extract it back into an RTF by casting the DetailText field as varbinary, but w...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Enable Theme Background Color Change on OpenPages Header

It would be really cool to allow a custom theme background color on the Header. I think someone mentioned this in the context of using the header for different types of alerting or bulletein e.g. making it red to draw attention. This would be the ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Enhancing DataStage Monitoring and Debugging Capabilities

One of the critical aspects of monitoring, tuning, or debugging individual jobs or an entire DataStage project is to clearly understand which database system activities are triggered by which stage in a specific DataStage job within a particular D...
4 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Unable to call BigQuery stored procedure using BigQuery connector stage in DataStage 11.7

As part of the existing Teradata to BigQuery migration POC, we are planning to replace the Teradata Macros’s to Big Query Stored Procedures and call the stored procedures from the BigQuery connector stage in Datastage 11.7. But the issue is we are...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

concerns password management policy, specifically increasing the level of their complexity

the current version of the product lacks the following two functionalities that significantly increase the level of security and complexity of passwords, namely: blocking the possibility of the same characters appearing consecutively in the passwo...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Delta Files from Datastage

Currently Datastage does not supports delta files. Due to which it cannot integrate seamlessly integrate/leverage the functionality supported by potential downstreams of an ETL tool like Fabric Warehouse/Databricks. For Ex>> If datastage wou...
4 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review