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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    Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

    Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data
    almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0

    Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

    Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)
    almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0

    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...
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

    Discovery Analyze Client should not access database directly

    Today, the ADDI Analyze client needs direct access to the DB2 LUW or MS SQL Server database. In a production environments, customers keep "ALL" databases in a special zone within the network. Typically, application servers only have access to data...
    almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

    Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

    Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
    almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

    Need HTTP proxy support on the Google connectors.

    Ford intends to switch authentication method to -> Workload Identity Federation (WIF) with token URL. Our CP4D runs behind a firewall that prevents internet access, so the communication has to be done via Proxy and currently has a HTTP proxy,...
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

    Need Postgres connector to not use positional binding

    We have tested with positional binding for one usecase and wanted to test it for multiple scenarios and it would be better if IBM can make it independent of positional binding.
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

    CP4D - Cloudera Impala Connector - Truststore/SSL

    In Legacy DataStage, we use connect to Hive/Impala using a cacerts which is defined that sever level. we just pass the location of the cacerts and datastage is intelligent enough to use that cacerts and establish the connectivity. But in CP4D we d...
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

    Filters on RDS With Composite Keys

    Filtering on a large RDS is cumbersome especially when you want to narrow down a specific combination of a code and two or more composite keys. Please add an option to filter on the "Key" (code|composite key 1|composite key 2)
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 6 Under review

    Enhance Category Selection for Metadata Enrichment by adding an option to choose between using only Primary categories or including Secondary categories.

    This enhancement would provide users with the flexibility to select whether to include only Primary categories or to expand their selection to include Secondary categories when identifying Data Classes or Business Terms for analysis. By offering t...
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

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