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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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Add the option to pick the document language and support table and image extraction

This proposal addresses a critical need for expanding the document ingestion capabilities of our product, which is particularly relevant to our clients with non-English data. Currently, our UDI feature is limited to an English-only OCR model. This...

Use the engines of the lakehouse in Git integrated projects

We have an instance of watsonx.data in CP4D, installed on Openshift in Azure Cloud. Within watsonx.data we have buckets representing azure containers within a Azure Blob storage. In projects that are integrated with Git, when we need to configure ...

A Github integration ensures enterprise-grade governance, automation, and agility for data engineering workflows. By leveraging GitHub and LevelUp tooling, clients gain robust version control, rollback capabilities, and automated testing/deployment for pipelines and DAGs. It reduces operational risk, accelerates delivery, and aligns with modern DevOps practices.

Large enterprise clients like AT&T, who manage complex data pipelines across hybrid environments, will benefit from streamlined CI/CD processes, improved security, and consistent governance across services. How should it work? GitHub Integra...

Bulk configure ODBC data sources and credentials for jobs

Currently, when creating a job, the ODBC data sources and credentials in the "ODBC Data Source" field must be configured individually, which is time-consuming. We would like the ability to select multiple data sources and configure them in bulk (o...
29 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Submitted

Support new connection type for watsonx.data and support for Spark engines in it

Documentation: https://ibm-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/p/shrinivas_kulkarni_in/EcUbCoYhyVRJmWrwscDVUx8B0jxHp5cqCLtr4E7xuCGDMw?e=tbj8w8 Future State Support for new connection type to point to a specific Spark Engine of watsonx.data, either on SaaS or so...

Request for Product Enhancement – Low Latency Data Processing Capabilities in watsonx.data

The customer is currently using watsonx.data to support a high-partition, high-ingestion analytics platform. While the system is now stable after several patches and fixes, they are looking ahead to future enhancements that can meet their true low...

Please consider access control for IGC assets

The requirement is to have access control on IGC assets ( IMAM, OpenIGCAssets) for different asset levels (ie. host, database, schema ) based on users roles or their ownership.
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release

IGC Collection Export & Import Option in 11.7

Currently we have no feature to do Export / Import Collection Assets from IGC - Governance(11.5) from one environment to another. Due to this, we used to create collection assets while Synchronizing Dev with PROD environment. As this is a manual p...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 2 Not under consideration

Bulk import of lineage filters (.WBF files)

"Import a lineage filter" function under Lineage Management in the admin console does not allow the selection of more than one WBF file for upload. In scenarios where a multitude of filters need to be imported, the current functionality allows for...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

Specifying RTN Codes to Ignore

• current situation: • If the RTN code is not 0 in the stream job step and the general job step, the job step will be treated as Failure, and the job will also have a Status of Failure. • Improvement Request: • I want to set a return code to be ig...
8 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Submitted