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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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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,

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  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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CP4D needs to support connecting with the DataStax drivers that are needed in order to provide a fully functional hybrid solution

In order for CP4D to support a fully functional hybrid solution with DataStax, CP4D needs to support connecting with the same drivers DataStax supports. Currently these drivers are: DataStax ODBC Driver for Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Add Blueprint Director back to IS suite

In Information Server 11.5 it is explicitly mentioned that Blueprint Director has been deprecated. No more integration with asset types in catalog and no more diagramming tool available as part of the suite license. In my opinion, the tool really ...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

GPCC does not support reject links.

Per discussion with Emily White, IBM Lab Advocate to DTCC: there is no reject link capability in the Greenplum Connector. Our projects are impacted with laborious research through the logs and time stake finding out the exact reason for job error....
over 10 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Document which property of data source is mapped to IGC attributes

The document to specify detail mapping on which properties of data source will mapped to IGC attributes. For example, SSRS report. Because, for example for SSRS report, I cannot know which properties in SSRS report will mapped to IGC, it should be...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Auto refresh after edit mapping in Extension Mapping in IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog

After edit mapping in Extension Mapping Document, Data Lineage related these Extension Mapping not affect. First workaround action: export, edit in csv file, then re-import EMD again. Better workaround action: run the link https://<Domain-Serve...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Support for MongoDB version 4.x

Currently there is ODBC drivers for older versions of MongoDB but not for the latest version
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Support Oracle 19c multitenant on datastage

Oracle 19c is now the next long term version for Oracle. A new functionality on Oracle is Multitenant. We would like to have the possibility to use Multitenant when using the Oracle database as Datastage Repository and When connecting from Datasta...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Information Analyzer - Permission to create virtual columns

In IA project security roles - business analyst and data operator - must have access to create virtual columns to data assets which have been added to project where these users have access.
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 1 Not under consideration

Add a project setting for table-level (top) Analyze button in new IGC

We want to prohibit users from Analyzing a full table under certain conditions, for example, on a project basis. For projects that have very large data sources, running column analysis on a full table uses too many server resources and also fills ...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Support KMS keys on Google Cloud Storage.

DataStage jobs that write to a GCS bucket, using the GCS connector, get error that includes " is encrypted with a Cloud KMS key, which is not supported."
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration