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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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Ensure Job Compilation Parity Across DataStage Interfaces

Problem: There should be functional parity in BASIC code generation across all DataStage job compilation methods, including: • Thick client (legacy Designer)• DataStage Flow Designer (DFD)• Server-side / REST API compilation Currently, jobs can co...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Support of special characters in table and column names - Datastage and watsonx.data intelligence

We are using watsonx.data intelligence SaaS or watsonx.data intelligence on-prem Data Quality feature. In case we are working with database which has non-latin (e.g. Hungarian) special characters in table and column name the autogenerated Datastag...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Invalidate Cache for pipelines & jobs on CP4D (Reset Option on 11.7)

Currently on CP4D GUI there is no option to reset the cache, like RESET option on 11.7 director. It will be hard to clear the cache on failed pipelines.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Kafka connector : Add the functionality to read Kafka message headers in the stage

Add the functionality to read Kafka message headers in the stage. Accessing the Kafka message header allows specifying the nature of the message detail.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

SQLDI Install Enhancements

The SQLDI install process needs to be enhanced to cater for separation of duty responsibilities, and it must not make assumptions about the config it is being installed in to. The following enhancements are required: 1. The install currently check...
7 months ago in IBM SQL Data Insights 0 Submitted

Order of dataset should be preserved as mentioned in Job design even after going through Transformer

As part of case TS020547569, we understood that if any column that doesnt have any derivation in transformer, its getting pushed to last while creating the dataset. If we dump the dataset to file, we see its dumping the dataset in different order ...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Migrate pipelines from legacy to Cp4d although child job doesn't exist without issues

While migrating pipeline, if the dependent/child flow doesnt exist in target environment, pipeline imported with warning and default id mapped in job activity. This is creating corrupted pipeline in target lane unlike legacy. Also, if any parallel...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Under review

Consolidated logs doesn't contain detailed summary and Start time

This is requested to add detailed summary in the consolidated log of the Pipelines which will help to identify the start time of the individual task . Also the start time also needs to be mentioned in the summary(The time provided in the timestamp...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Option to compare 2 executions of the same job in CP4D

Currently CP4D does provide an option to compare two executions of the same job. This feature will be used to analyze and compare the runtime and data volume between jobs runs which helps in better job monitoring. It is available in Datastage.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Needs more information

Archer connector

we use archer application for Risk Assessment and Prioritization: Archer facilitates risk identification, assessment, and prioritization using built-in methodologies and user-defined metrics . Compliance Management: The platform supports automated...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review