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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Connect to SAP Datasphere as a datasource for connection and for IKC.

SAP Datasphere is a new data warehouse from SAP competing with Snowflake, Google Bigquery, Azure Redshift, Db2 and other data catalog solutions for SAP data. Clients who are deploying SAP would use Datasphere for connecting, managing, cataloging a...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

DataDirect jdbc driver for mongodb support balanced string

Then this idea stems from the fact that the customer wanted to connect to mongodb through our jdbc driver, however their mongodb team provided him with a balanced string with a replicaset parameter that allows you to replicate data on the affected...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

FileNet CPE - support for EntraID without ROPC

Currently, it is not possible to deploy Content Platform Engine with Microsoft Entra ID as the identity provider without enabling the ROPC (Resource Owner Password Credentials) flow on the Entra ID side. Content Platform Engine requires a system u...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Oracle NetSuite connector

Customers have a growing amount of ERP and ERP vendors do not like applications to connect to the back end data source. Customer is requesting for the ability to connect to Oracle NetSuite through API or other means. Once the connector is availabl...
11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Needs more information

Always on Availability in SQL Server platform connection

We are currently using the SQL Sever Driver in CP4D to connect to a specific database using the CP4D sql server platform connection and it is used for metadata import, metadata enrichment, DQ Rules and Datastage flows for ETLs among other things. ...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

API Key option in platform connection for db2

Hello Team, I am trying to create platform connection on cp4d portal for db2u deployment but there is no option for API key authentication we need to supply mandatory values i.e. username and password I choose "IBM db2" while creating platform con...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

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

Capture repository events, such as project or job deletions.

For security reasons, we need audit logs that track changes to show that a user has deleted a project or a job. Information Server auditing does not capture repository events, such as project or job deletions. Hence it will not be possible to dete...
3 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration