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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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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.

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Planning Analytics 3.1 - Add parameter "domain_hint" to OIDC configuration to allow automatic login

At Deutsche Bahn, we use a standard service called DB WEB SSO for OIDC. Essentially, this is Azure EntraID, although most settings are predefined by the service, leaving us with limited configuration options. In our case, the optional domain_hint ...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable support for IBM Db2 Warehouse as a data source for Data Lineage import in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC).

IBM Db2 Warehouse is a critical data platform used by many organizations for analytical workloads, reporting, and business insights. However, it is currently not supported for Data Lineage import in IKC, which creates a significant visibility gap ...
8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Expand IBM Manta / IKC metadata harvesting support to cover PBIP (Power BI Project) format and additional Tableau file formats (.hyper, .tde, .twbr)

IBM Manta and IKC currently support metadata harvesting and lineage stitching for Power BI .pbix files and Tableau formats .twb, .twbx, .tds, .tdsx. Two gaps were identified during a client engagement with Bradesco (Brazil): 1. Power BI — PBIP for...
7 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Enable a parallel text chat stream while using the voice experience, allowing users to see the conversation in real time while interacting via voice

Currently, when voice mode is enabled in watsonx Orchestrate, the user enters a voice-only interaction that behaves like a phone call with the virtual agent. During this experience, the textual conversation is not visible in real time within the c...
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

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...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Enhancement to Quiesce utility: RETRY and DRAIN_WAIT.

If there are applications in a shop that are operating under the goal of 24/7 uptime, including tablespaces that support it, (for example, internet customer usability), a QUIESCE utility can fail to drain writers if there are constant threads conn...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Create a PBR table with specified physical partition order

Sometimes it is required to create a copy of an existing table that will exactly match the existing table. And as physical and logical partitions in PBR can be out of order, that includes the existing order of physical partition numbers. CREATE TA...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - other - Option to restrict API usage access

While we are setting up our environment with SSO meaning users cannot use API with username/password they can still generate the API key. We would like to have role based allow access to not specifically generate the API key but to actually authen...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - deployment - separate rights for job view/create/modify/delete/run

With roles we would like to restrict the job functionality in Deployment Spaces. Separate rights through roles for view/create/modify/delete/run would be useful to have.
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - secrets/vault - separate roles to access secrets and create secrets

Secrets role management should have two separate additional functionalities: one where we just allow users to use/access secrets that are shared with them second where users are allowed to create/manage/delete secrets
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted