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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Selective synchronization of users, role mappings, and Zen API keys between existing CPFS/Zen environments

We need a supported mechanism to selectively synchronize specific Foundational Services / Zen configuration and identity data between two already existing and independent environments, primarily Production and Disaster Recovery. Specifically, we n...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock Submitted

All connections and scans of external systems to IBM software should be visible, manageable and auditable to business users through the User Interface

Consistent with scans (metadata discovery, get lineage, enrichment), any query or scan run against an external source system such as Teradata should be visible through the user interface so business users can properly view, manage and audit these ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Needs more information

Allow Replication of a Subset of Columns from Db2 for z/OS using Db2 Data Gate

Allow customers to define which columns of a Db2 for z/OS table should be replicated to Db2 Data Gate, reducing storage requirements, replication overhead, and unnecessary data exposure. Today, when a table is added to Db2 Data Gate using the SYSP...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Catalog asset export should not be limited to the UI "items per page" - or then you should allow way bigger maximum instead of 100

We have several 'registers' modelled as custom assets in the catalog. Anyone who wishes to export the register, be it application register or data asset register can not do it at one go, because the UI has max limit of 100 items, and the "export" ...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Sequential File Stage Should Support Header-Based Column Mapping When Using Schema Files

When using a Sequential File stage with a schema file, DataStage maps columns by position instead of by column name, even when "First line is column names" is enabled and the file contains a header row. This behavior is inconsistent with the scena...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

IBM Software Hub – Expand cpd-cli OADP Online Backup Capability to Store Backups (Metadata + Volumes) Outside OCP Cluster / ODF Storage

Summary: We are requesting a product enhancement for IBM Software Hub to expand the cpd-cli OADP online backup capability so that backups — including both metadata and volume data — can be stored outside the OpenShift cluster / ODF storage, rather...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

Storage volumes: show actual used space (not only allocated) and allow PVC expansion from the platform UI

As a platform administrator you can use the Total resource usage → Volumes page to keep storage under control. The table lists every PVC with its provisioned capacity ("PVC size"), phase, service, service instance and access mode, but it only show...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Support for persistent global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables in Db2 Data Gate for Db2 for z/OS to Db2 LUW topologies

In Db2 Data Gate topologies that replicate data from Db2 for z/OS to Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW), there is currently a functional limitation in which global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables are not supported, as documente...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Allow 'watching' of single terms/rules for changes

Our key users would like to know if certain terms/rules are edited by other people. For example: In our model we have high (NBT) and low level (CBT) terms, which are connected. Different organisations and persons are responsible for the categories...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Needs more information

Improve the search and filtering of the catalogs

Currently user feedback is that they can't use the search to get the assets they are interested in. IBM suggestion is to use global search, which does work better, but it is crude also. You should improve the search itself PLUS introduce filtering...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review