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Status Submitted
Workspace Cloud Pak for Data
Components DataStage
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 4, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Permit resizing individual columns (especially in the New Transformer)

In general, all stages that offer editing the input and output columns have a difficulty of displaying the full information and there seems to be no way to resize the display of individual columns. The default space seems even more narrow than necessary (the dots "..." start already where there is still display space left to be used). Without the option to resize a long prefix of the derivation definition makes it impossible to distinguish the different configurations (see attached screenshot 1). The New Transformer offers a resizing only of the whole table which results in all columns to be wider, even more than necessary and therefore wasting display space (see attached screenshot 2). 

Enhancement request: It would be good to have the option to resize individual columns, especially in the main view of the New Transformer in order to permit a better review of the defined transformations at one glance if the screen offers enough space (see attached edited image 3 to show the ideal situation). Such an option would make it possible to make other columns more narrow when their display is not important for the user. 

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