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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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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.

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



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Make is_sharing_properties configurable for both governed and non-governed catalogs

In IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D 5.3.1), the is_sharing_properties setting controls whether business metadata is shared across catalogs when identical data assets are published in multiple catalogs. Currently: This setting is editable only for non-...
about 15 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

User bulk sync cron job need to exclude hand-picked LDAP group(s)

This idea is an extension of CPDIDEAS-I-2297. Now IBM delivered upfront user bulk sync available via cron job. Organization has few enterprise group(s) using for all users read access and integrated in CP4D IDP configuration. Need to exclude those...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Universal Advanced Anti-Corruption Semiconductor Open Source Satellite Network (UAAC-SOSN)

Universal Advanced Anti-Corruption Semiconductor Open Source Satellite Network (UAAC-SOSN) Executive Summary The Universal Advanced Anti-Corruption Semiconductor Open Source Satellite Network (UAAC-SOSN) is a conceptual research framework that com...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Open Source Management Submitted

Support to specify SAP client for OData Connection

SAP systems could contain different SAP clients. At the moment it's not possible to choose/specify a SAP client when using Odata Connector. It will always connect to the default client. So it's not possible to extract data from other SAP clients.
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity Submitted

Provide export to ppt as a option

Currently, PAW supports only the PDF export option. PPT export is supported only under the burst option. For example, if we create a summary dashboard that has no hierarchy, we cannot export it to PPT without using a workaround in Brusting. Provid...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics Submitted

UNIVERSAL BIO CULTIVATING INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS PLATFORM (UBCI)

UNIVERSAL BIO CULTIVATING INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS PLATFORM (UBCI) IBM / DARPA-Style Research Concept Submission Executive Summary The Universal Bio Cultivating Intelligence (UBCI) platform is a conceptual research framework designed to model, optimiz...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Decision Optimization Submitted

WARREN BUFFETT GLOBAL VALUE INVESTMENT & FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM (WB-GVIIP)

WARREN BUFFETT GLOBAL VALUE INVESTMENT & FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM (WB-GVIIP) IBM / DARPA-Style Research Concept Submission Executive Summary The Warren Buffett Global Value Investment & Financial Intelligence Platform (WB-GVIIP) is ...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Financial Services Workbench Submitted

BIO GEO FAMILY CLOUD PAK Biological-Geospatial Family Intelligence and Secure Cloud Platform (BGF-CloudPak)

BIO GEO FAMILY CLOUD PAK Biological-Geospatial Family Intelligence and Secure Cloud Platform (BGF-CloudPak) Executive Summary BIO GEO FAMILY CLOUD PAK is a conceptual research platform designed to integrate genealogy, population studies, geospatia...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

Implement EDB postgres as an external database for Openscale

As reported in the documentation, only Db2 is supported for databases external to CP4D.To offer an alternative for clients unable to manage Db2 properly, it would be ideal to also offer Postgres EDB as an external database: currently, however, it ...

Add SQL pushdown support for DB2 for z/OS connector in DataStage NextGen

Flows using the db2zos connector compile and run purely as px-runtime OSH with no pushdown. ELT mode does not support db2zos, so no predicate or transformation is pushed into DB2 for z/OS. All data is extracted to the parallel engine before any fi...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted