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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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Ability to add a mandator condition to filter trans on Root Mandator

We are receiving huge volume of non monetary trans into Safer Payments which is not useful, currently we are implementing a filter on the sub mandator but the transaction are still getting stored at the Root Mandator, which is increasing the reten...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Under review

We need a connector for Apache Iceberg connector in CP4D Datastage.

We need a connector for Apache Iceberg in CP4D Datastage. Since Big Data platform in our company is converted to Iceberg catalogues they asked us to integrate data through CP4D, currently no support is given due to this limitation. Thanks
5 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Field Validation & Invalid Information Handling

Implementing validation checks across one or more fields is crucial to ensure data integrity. Without this feature, we are at risk of accepting incorrect or incomplete data. Example validation: data picker can’t pick dates in future. Also there sh...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release

Datastage 11.7 - Azure_Storage_Connector - Support for Container-Level SAS Tokens(User Delegation SAS)

Please add support for connecting to Azure Blob Storage (with Azure_Storage_Connector) using a User Delegation SAS (container-level SAS token based on Microsoft Entra ID).Currently, this type of authentication is not supported — the connector requ...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Upgrading WatsonX.ai BYOM Support for T5 Models with vLLM Runtime

Why Is It Useful? The watsonx.ai BYOM runtime v1.0 current reliance TGIS runtime limits WatsonX.ai's ability to support critical features like beam search, essential for improved output quality in applications such as machine translation. Customer...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Not under consideration

Add support for ssl key lengths greater than 2048 bit

Cognos Analytics currently supports a maximum key length of 2048 bit for ssl certificates. The limit seems to derive from the ThirdPartyCertificateTool, but might affect the whole ecosystem including Planning Analytics, PAW and Jupyter Notebook Se...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Support list in field mapping for MongoDB Lookup Stage

Customer has raised a request to specify list (array) in the “SDC field” while defining Document to SDC Field Mappings in MongoDB atlas lookup processor stage. Usually we specify field names for mapping but here we require to fetch the records whe...
over 1 year ago in StreamSets 3 Needs more information

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

SAP BW Dataconnection out of Support on 31.12.2018

A data connection to an SAP BW system is to be set up.The client SAP NetWeaver RFC library 7.20 recommended by IBM is no longer supported by SAP as of 31.12.2018. SAP refers to "SAP NetWeaver RFC Library 7.50" as the successor.This driver cannot b...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Run a TI process upon open or close of PAW book.

We currently store user settings for a PAW book in a cube which is subsequently used to manage subsets and other elements in the book. Basically, to create guided user experiences. It would be very useful to have the ability to run a TI process up...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration