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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Support of OpenText as Source in UDI

The customer is interested in adopting UDI but requires OpenText as data source, which is currently unsupported. This limitation prevents integration of critical enterprise content and blocks broader adoption.

Introduce workflow-based approval for Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations when governance workflows are enabled.

Currently, governance workflows are triggered for glossary term creation through bulk import, requiring review and approval before changes become effective. However, Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations are executed immediately after conf...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Group ownership for imported metadata asset in catalog

When I use the "Import metadata from file" function to add a new asset or update an existing asset in an existing catalog, the Owner field is automatically set to my user account instead of an existing group. In enterprise environments, assets are...
9 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Display CDDS command

We opened both TS022609404 & TS022550954 and had a question on the ability to add a DISPLAY CDDS. We understand there is no current such command, but you can issue a DISPLAY LOG command and get a DSNJ375I message giving the CDDS name and the m...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Enhance Utility History Tables to record DSNTIAUL unloads

I am missing that the unloads made with DSNTIAUL be recorded at the Utilities History tables. In fact, I came here to vote an idea like this, taking for granted that someone had already opened it asking for this. :-) Sorry if there's already one, ...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Provide a status flag in a SYSIBM table for Indexes

Provide a status flag in a SYSIBM table for Indexes similar to how a status flag is provided for tablespaces in SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE. The 'STATUS' column in SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES does not provide the same type of information about index statuses as th...
18 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Customization of Fields Returned from the Knowledge Base

Currently, the informational agents in watsonx.orchestrate retrieve only the title and main content of chunks from the knowledge base. However, there are other pertinent information that they would like to have access to for certain use cases, suc...
18 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Per-Table Replication Timestamp Exposure

Data Gate Administrator / DBA want the Data Gate UI and Monitoring API to explicitly expose the exact replication timestamp (replication_capture_point / last_replicated_change_timestamp) individually for each replicated table, rather than just as ...
12 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

New Alert for Active Log Dataset Time Span reaching defined Timeframe

There is lots of good instrumentation and documented processes known and available on how to calculate and monitor db2 active and archive log metrics like volumes, log switches and usage thresholds. But each and every customer has to buid their ow...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Connecting to Amazon Neptune

The customer has a graph database on Amazon Neptune and wants to establish a connection between CP4D and Neptune so they can create machine learning models using those databases (and leveraging the GPUs available on CP4D). As a workaround, we will...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity Submitted