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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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CP4D (IKC + Manta OEM ) EDB postgreSQL connector support (MDI, MDE, Lineage, IKC DB reporting)

Context: CP4D SW v>=5.2.1 with Manta OEM Customer (Intesa SanPaolo Italy) need to use a CP4D supported EDB postgreSQL connector to implement: - Meta Data Import - Meta Data Enrichment - Lineage (using MDI get lineage from "IKC") - DB reporting ...
12 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Possibility to customize name of Settings during export

This is meant as a further improvement of idea DVMZ-I-214. When exporting Repositories and JDBC Library settings it creates a Settings.zip file, It would be useful to have the ability to edit the name, as already possible for personal data sources...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DVM: Limit number of active user JDBC connections, and queue excessive connections

Problem: We are having an issue when a user is issuing multiple SQL queries in batch at the same time to DVM server, using jdbc connection, which is resulting in storage shortage errors, and failure of the query. Workaround: IBM support has provid...
about 1 month ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for "Security Headers" (masked) on Web Client Connections

While the Connection object allows us to specify custom headers, they are treated as standard/common headers. The UI does not mask the input, which exposes sensitive API keys and tokens in plain text to anyone with view access to the connection. H...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Submitted

POSTGRE SQL Connector -IAM Based DB authentication enhancement

IBM PMR #TS022742354 Submitted for the same. Situation/Background: As part of the organization’s Zero Trust adoption policy, applications connecting to GCP Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL are required to transition from password-based built-in/local data...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Notification for Jobs in Activating or Deactivating After an Amount of Time

Control Hub Subscriptions events that would be the closest to monitoring this would be a Job Status Change. The job statuses Activating and Deactivating themselves are necessary and we would not want a notification every time a job went to these s...
over 1 year ago in StreamSets 5 Future consideration

Please support LockTimeout parameter in IBM data server provider for .NET

It's currently not possible to configure the LockTimeout Parameter in .net applications on client side (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1?topic=keywords-locktimeout). This would help us to optimize our environment.
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

DVM: new parameter which allows customer to chose if they get Client LAN id or TSO user id in QWHCEUID field

Most DB2 connection types reflect the TSO User ID in QWHCEUID.DVM Studio is an exception, it shows LAN ID in QWHCEUID. Allowing change RACF in this field, will allow for consistency in reporting user id across different DB2 connection types.
about 2 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1

Display Scheduled Tasks which have failed to execute for a defined number of past scheduled runs

This request is to make scheduled tasks which do not run on their scheduled time for a defined number of tries visible in the UI or through an API call. For example, given a scheduled task runs once a minute, allow the user to specify that if it d...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Include rotatelogs binary by default in base image

The file generated by the engine at /tmp/engine-*.out grows unbound. The engine scripts (libexec/_sdc) do contain logic to utilize the rotatelogs command if available, however this is not the default. The log file /tmp/engine-*.out growing unbound...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted