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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    Support OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow in DataStage Salesforce Connector

    Support OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow in DataStage Salesforce Connector Description: The current connector supports User-Password and JWT Bearer flows; however, Salesforce no longer recommends the User-Password Flow due to security concerns. T...
    4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

    Denodo support

    We need Denodo support for DataStage using the Denodo JDBC drivers. Currently JDBC can be used, but connecting to Denodo is not supported by IBM.
    about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

    Native connector for Yellowbrick bulk transactions

    A native bulk loader connector for Yellowbrick would help our customers to improve the performance of the ETL processes that need to move large amounts of data to and from the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse. This connector should work like the nzload ...
    about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

    DataStage Oracle/ODBC connector stage performance

    We have IBM InfoSphere Platform and thousands of DataStage Jobs. Lot of these jobs use Oracle and ODBC connector Stage to connect to Oracle DBaaS database. These stages are running queries against system tables frequently and causing performance d...
    about 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

    SAS datasets for IKC Data Quality Requirements

    We have a new customer request for analyzing SAS dataset( in .sas7bdat format) in IKC for Data Quality requirements. As per IBM point of contact for us, this connector is not available in IKC now. Requesting to add this connector in CP4D future re...
    almost 2 years ago in Connectivity 3 Under review

    Provide Metadata Import suport for Azure Synapse in CP4D

    Problem Statement: watsonx BI doesn't support Azure Synapse, forcing Azuresynapse customers to move their data elsewhere to use wxBI. This creates extrawork and slow performance, making them less likely to adopt our platform. Solution Value Statem...
    5 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

    An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

    When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
    10 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Under review

    Add/enable connection from DataStage to confluent cloud topics having OAUTH support for schema registry.

    We are trying to connect to confluent cloud topic from on-prem Datastage with kafka connector used in jobs.To connect for confluent cloud topic we select OAUTHBEARER property in kafka connector. According to our use case, we are facing issue while...
    10 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

    Connection from CPD Manta for data lineage to Azure Managed Instance using the service principal/entra ID

    Due to the security systems around our clients data, the security team has requested that we use service principals/entra ID when connecting to the Azure SQL/Managed databases/instances.
    almost 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

    Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

    Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
    almost 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

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