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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.

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Connection to IBM WebSphere MQ

Customer has explored JMS connection and RabbitMQ connectivity. It appears they can connect to IBM WebSphere MQ but it needs manual workaround to get required libraries set up. There is no documentation readily available on how they can achieve th...
5 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Expand credential fields to include. endpoint URLs

Expand credential fields to include endpoint URLs. This would allow better security for example in the case where a Redis URL contains a password as well as better parameterization whenmoving connections across environments. One can already retrie...
10 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Enable reading NUMBER(1) columns in New Oracle CDC stage as INTEGER rather than BYTE

There is an existing CI in the old system for this; adding it to the Ideas portal for customer visibility. StreamSets documentation explains that we convert Oracle's Number type to SDC data types based on precision and scale, converting NUMBER fie...
over 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Improve Default Failover Configuration and Centralized Management

We recently encountered a situation where, due to thread unavailability on a specific SDC, many jobs got stuck in the RED ACTIVE state. These jobs neither failed nor retried on the same SDC, resulting in no user notifications being triggered. Upon...
5 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Introduce Finite Default Retry Configuration in Pipeline

Currently, the default retry configuration is set to infinite retries (-1). In many real-world scenarios, this behavior is not useful — for example, when a job encounters persistent errors such as START_ERROR, it continues retrying indefinitely. T...
5 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

AWS_MSK_IAM SASL_MECHANISM support for Kafka stages

Ability to use connections to connect to Kafka endpoint, access provided through IAM role via the AWS_MSK_IAM SASL mechanism. Currently, Kafka stages allows Security Protocol=CUSTOM for manually configuring Java Properties for the Kafka Client, bu...
11 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

We need to know if the session/task is from SMC

We are working to use SMC (Symphony MultiCluster). Since there is no database schema change, we can't tell if the session/task is from SMC. We created TS019242798 and know there is global id in PERF soamdb temp file (session_history/task_attribute...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

Add AMI name regexe Option into Symphony HostFactory AWS template

Currently, Our AMI name alias remain constant for successive iterations such as symphony-worker-ami-<time stamp> as AMI version control. We request IBM can add option by providing AMI name instead of static imageID. Symphony HostFactory can ...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Add support for top level union schemas in Kafka Avro schema support

Support top-level unions for Avro schemas instead of just top-level record schemas. Example top-level union: ["null", { "type": "record", "name": "SampleRecord", "fields": [ { "name": "id", "type": "string" }, { "name": "name", "type": "strin...
11 months ago in StreamSets 2 Not under consideration

Support to load LIST-MAP field type to Object Data Type in Snowflake

LexisNexis is consuming data from MongoDB and writing to Snowflake. The consumer stage always returns all fields as LIST-MAP type. Requesting to extend support for LIST-MAP fields to load into Object datatype? This would help us avoid additional t...
11 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review