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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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Support for List type in Variant datatype column for Snowflake Destination stage

Customer is trying to insert an array json into a Snowflake table with one of the column of Variant datatype. They encountered error "invalid type 'LIST', column type is 'VARIANT' " when pushing array data to Snowflake destination stage.
23 days ago in StreamSets 2 Needs more information

Expose Field Analysis through REST API

The newly introduced field analysis is a very helpful feature - in order to use this in external tools, we would want to have the JSON data that the field analysis returns to the UI exposed vie the REST API.
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Needs more information

Pass data from a GenAI prompt to directly into agentic workflows

Form Capabilities and Integration with GenAI: Our team was encouraged to utilize Flows for (future) form capabilities. However, we've found it impossible to pass information from a GenAI prompt to directly into these Flows, leveraging user input f...
8 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

Unify data quality rules per table into a single job

When quality rules are created, a separate DataStage job is generated for each table column. For a table with 100 columns requiring quality analysis, this results in 100 individually processed jobs. Bradesco had implemented a workaround where, aft...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

new column alteration feature: enable SET GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP

Use Case: A table is created with the following column definition: TECHTIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP The clients use the table (already contains data records), so that values have already been generated ...
10 months ago in Db2 2 Needs more information

Extended Job History & Export Functionality

Problem Statement : Currently, the Jobs tab in our IKC/ICP4D UI only displays job run history for the last 7 days . This limited view prevents us from: Long-term Auditing: It's impossible to track job trends, performance changes, or historical ...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Add a "CREATE TENANT LIKE" functionality

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. For ease of use and the ability to spin up seperate tenants fast, a statement like "CREATE TENANT <new tenant name> LIKE <existin...
10 months ago in Db2 4 Needs more information

Data captured in long transactions with guaranteed delivery to destination

It is usefull because sometimes a very long transaction pass through the Capture process but can´t be delivered causing memory lack at destination. The benefit would be not losing the data transferred to the destination. One suggestion would be to...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Needs more information

User activity audit reports

The platform should provide comprehensive user activity logs, including login history, data access, asset modifications, catalog interactions, and administrative actions. These logs should be stored in a structured format accessible through the un...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Needs more information

Needed a new option that would stop any job to instantiate a pipeline inside a data collector then when all the currently running pipeline will terminate then the data collector would shutdown automatically

Needed a new option that would stop any job to instantiate a pipeline inside a data collector then when all the currently running pipeline will terminate then the data collector would shutdown automatically. 1 provide a lock at the control plan le...
2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Needs more information