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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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Azure Synapse supported for ELT run mode

We have many customers who have an appetite for cost-reduction with their cloud warehouses. We have had multiple conversations with customers around leveraging Datastage writing to S3 in iceberg format, to be integrated with the warehouse like Sno...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

failed logins in auditlog

In the audit logs (WAS_install_path/profiles/InfoSphere/logs) there is no information on failed logins. This information is only logged in the WAS SystemOut.log as Authentication failed.It would be important to have this audit-critical information...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Improved clarity of NFS mount points in DataStage

When configuring NFS mount points in datastage, it is not possible to define a name for the mount pointFor example: if I mount /mnts/tata/dev, in the asset "asset browser" when creating the stream. If I choose “DataStage persistent volume”, I'll s...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Difficult reading of stage transformer in CP4D

Stage Variables: It is challenging to view all stage variables simultaneously and discern their interrelationships. Additionally, it is not possible to identify the types of fields in use. Output Derivation: The box for adding field derivations is...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Option to retain job log when deploying via MettleCI

MettleCI currently deletes the existing job prior to importing the updated version. A consequence is the full detailed job run log gets deleted. An option to be able to deploy via MettleCI without needing to deleting the assets will allow client t...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Virtual Machine access without mounting path

The VM is mounted onto CP4D on /mnts In datastage 11.5 we locate dataset on the unix path /local/data In datastage CP4D, we now need to precise /mnts/local/data That is a major break in the migration from 11.5 to CP4D. We would like not to precise...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Native Connector for accessing data with Delta on S3 in DataStage Classic

We are building an Open Lakehouse with the data stored with Delta in S3 Storage. Watsonx.data uses the same Open Lakehouse approaches, but is using Iceberg instead of Delta. DataStage as an ETL tool should support a wide range of different technol...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 1

Add support for Db2 timestamp(12) data type in DataStage and CP4D

The Db2 data type timestamp(12) (timestamp with a precision up to 12 digits of the second) is not supported by DataStage. This data type is used and required for temporal tables in Db2 (LUW) and Db2 for z/OS. Temporal tables are a very helpful fun...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

BIGNUMERIC datatype decimal scale values are trimming to 9 in the BigQuery Connector Stage

BIGNUMERIC datatype decimal scale values are trimming to 9 in the BigQuery Connector. We have tried StringToDecimal function for string type decimal value, hardcoded decimal value with more than 9 scale and APT_DECIMAL_INTERM_SCALE with value 20 h...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 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
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Under review