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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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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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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.

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information server sap pack - need encryption with idoc stage

In the Information Server pack for sap, the abap extract stage has an SNC capability-to encrypt data. Need the same ability with the idoc extract and idoc load stages.
almost 10 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Distinguish different products user login in ISaudit_X.log

We user ISauditLog_X.log to track user access to different product in IS suite. However, some products are only shown web console instead of the real product like DQC, admin console and subscription manager. Can we add the differentiation of produ...
almost 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Support Cognos Access Manager authentication in Cognos TM1 Connector

Support Cognos Access Manager authentication in Cognos TM1 Connector
almost 10 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Information server integration with LDAP Forgerock OpenDJ

We are using information server Datastage v11.5 and want to use our corporate LDAP Forgerock OpenDJ for authentication but find no documentation on how to configure WAS for use with OpenDJ.
almost 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

CP4D 4.0.2 Datastage (Tahoe) – Apache Kafka Connector custom functionality

We need the possibility to extend the Apache Kafka Connector with custom functionality. We are using AVRO SerDe + Confluent Schema Registry but the message payload is encrypted using in-house libraries. When reading events, first we need to decryp...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Technical Specialist- Information Server

With the Amazon S3 stage, our client would like to include the date_created field for a list of files in Amazon S3. Currently this is missing. I would like to read the create date for a file using the DataStage S3 connector, but I do not see that ...
almost 10 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Spaces in Column Name - unstructured stage or any Stage

Our team uses dataStage unstructured Stage for our integration nd ETL. However, we have Column names that have spaces, and unstructured Stage currently has limit on Column names not to have spaces. This limit should be extended and spaces should b...
almost 10 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

help icon

11.7 of Classic IGC uses icon of "?" whereas 11.7 New IGC uses "i" I feel "i" is less confusing and an improvement over "?". Please change classic catalog to use "i". There are multiple reasons we can't move our users to the New IGC Catalog (lack ...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

IGC feedback subject and email content is able to be customized.

IBM CASE: TS006925821 Hi Team, Our business client raised one request to change the feedback email's body. Is that possible? Could you please provide the guidance? The feedback email function is shown while you go with the following steps:1. login...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Missing parameters for job starts via the Operations Console

Job starts via the Operations Console behave differently than via the DataStage Director Client. While all parameters for a parameter set are displayed and can be changed in the Director, this is unfortunately not the case in the Operations Consol...
about 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration