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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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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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Redshift Connector – Consistent Handling of Unused Source Columns

Scenarios where source and target schemas do not exactly match. In such cases, connectors should provide flexible handling of unused or extra columns to avoid unnecessary job failures and improve usability. Currently, the behavior of the Redshift ...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Redshift Connector – Consistent Handling of Unused Source Columns

Scenarios where source and target schemas do not exactly match. In such cases, connectors should provide flexible handling of unused or extra columns to avoid unnecessary job failures and improve usability. Currently, the behavior of the Redshift ...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

Private Endpoint Support for Data Stage in IBM Cloud

Submitted on behalf of federico_accetta@it.ibm.com -- please contact him directly A significant number of customer engagements involve hybrid connectivity between IBM Cloud and on-premises environments. However, many core data platform services—sp...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Configurable attachment/version retention policy

Current DataStage/CAMS import behavior creates a new attachment/version every time assets are imported using the “replace” option. In enterprise CI/CD environments with automated deployments and shared dependencies, this quickly reaches the curren...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Automated Backup for DataStage Anywhere

Built-in scheduling for automated (non-manual) project and metadata backups. Currently this is done by a manual process of backup/restore
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Schedule a single job multiple times a day with different parameters via UI for DataStage Anywhere

This feature currently is supported in Datastage 8 and 9 however it is nos possible in DataStage SaaS. We require this feature to be available in the UI. The details of the scenario is described in this ticket: TS021624305. Currently there is a sh...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Improve JSON String Production/Creation

There is an existing known issue documented here . “The schema library manager does not support import of a JSON schema that is based on the IETF (Internet Engineering Task force) JSON schema internet draft.” The lack of support for JSON standard ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Have the possibility to control the time range for the DSODB Dashboard.

Currently, we do not have any variable that can be set to control the DSODB Dashboard time range. The only existing way, is to manually update the value (3 times for the dashboard...), and this modification is only persisting for the session's coo...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Avoiding conflicts for multiple users working at the same time on a DataStage flow

With the web interface, two (or more) users can now work in parallel on the same flow. And the last one saving will overwrite all the work done by the others. It would be good to have a mechanism to prevent multiple people working at the same time...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration