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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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:


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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,

  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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Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

CP4D - Restrict multiple users simultaneously opening the same flow to make changes - Addition of version name to the Dialog box.

This is in continuation of case #TS015396049. As of today, When two users open the same flow and one user change the flowed and saved it. There is a popup which gets displayed with the second user on who changed it and time as well. in addition to...
about 24 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Improvements to Relationship Explorer

The current Relationship Explorer default view is messy. It can be improved by: 1. the lines between the nodes can ne customised. lines should also not cross under nodes as it is difficult to trace. 2. have restricted scopes 3. able to perform aut...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Enable Automatic Onboarding of LDAP Users to IKC Without Initial Login

Currently, users from enterprise LDAP are successfully auto-propagated to the Access Control section in IBM Software Hub through their assigned Active Directory (AD) groups. However, these users do not appear in IKC until they log in for the first...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Enable support AppDynamics agents

Hi, Following link Pod security context - IBM Documentation suggests any instrumentation of IBM container images on Cloud pak is restricted and moreover application performance monitoring tools such as AppDynamics are not supported. Can this be co...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 0 Submitted

Add IBM App Connect Enterprise to CP4D

Request: Enhancing CP4D with Enterprise Integration Capabilities via IBM App Connect Enterprise We propose the addition of a robust integration solution within Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to support Enterprise Integration Patterns. A suitable candid...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Datastage Migration Service Should Honor CP4D Folder Structures

In the context of a CP4D Datastage Project with Folders enabled... When a migration is performed (in my case from cpdctl) using an ISX file containing Legacy Datastage Assets (e.g. 11.3) that also exist in the CP4D project, the migration service b...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Assess and modify "Cloud pak for Data" to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Salesforce API Stage Connectivity for DataStage - need mutual authentication supported

Citi has a mandate that all connection to salesforce should be mutually authenticate. Any connection to salesforce should be through mutual auth port 8443 and certificate to be passed all time Below is the link, that explains about setting up mutu...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Under review

Hashi Vault support for Kv1 engine

CPD does not support Hashi Vault using the Kv1 engine at the moment. We would request to enhance CPD product which includes support for Hashi vault Kv1 engine too.
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review