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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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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,

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  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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Cloud Pak for Data

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...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Test certificates are created in namespace "cert-manager", not in the project namespace during installation

During the Cloud Pak for Data installation / upgrade the cert-manager is checked by creating certificates.cert-manager.io k8s objects in the cert-manager namespace. The cert-manager is a namespace, managed by the RedHat cert-manager Operator, so t...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Allow override of built-in BRNAME and BRADDR standardization rules

We are migrating standardization rules from IBM InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) to Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) DataStage NextGen. During the migration, our customized Brazilian standardization rules BRNAME and BRADDR cannot be imported because C...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

UI doesn't show what assets and what catalog a publish job worked with

defect #: TS022691516 how does one find in UI what assets and what catalog did a publish job publish assets to.
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Cloud Pak for Data / CommonServices needs to support preferred login by named IDP

Cloud Pak for Data uses CommonServices which supports the use of preferredLogin to an authentication type. This only works if there is a single registered authentication type. For example if I only have one OIDC IDP and I set preferredLogin to OID...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 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...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

CP4D - Apache HDFS Connector (Flow Connection) - Enhancement Request - keytab file - Parameterization

Hi Team, Please refer to the case #TS020958108 for complete details. if we design the flow connection from the scratch. We have to manually encode the keytab file which is present in the application path or a specific Linux path. This is a manuall...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Remote Development Integration with IBM Bob IDE

Executive Summary Request for official integration between IBM Bob IDE and IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to enable seamless remote development workflows. Currently, the Microsoft Remote-SSH extension blocks connectivity when using IBM Bob (a VS Co...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

Workload Misplacement Due to Inconsistent Node Affinity Control Impacts Platform Stability

All non-VPC workloads must support node affinity to ensure proper scheduling on specific nodes (e.g., standard vs GPU workers). In OCP environments running IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Software Hub, clusters often include both standard and GPU wor...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Enhance CP4D Workflow Approvals with API-Based Validation and External Approval Integrations

Idea Description It would be useful if IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Data Intelligence Platform workflows could be extended beyond standard manual approval steps to support configurable validation and integration points. For example, during an appr...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted