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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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Cloud Pak for Data

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

Preserve Existing Relationships During Bulk Relationship Loads-No98

When performing bulk relationship imports using relationship templates in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC), the system should provide an option to add new relationships without overwriting or deleting existing ones. This capability would allow metadata...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Role‑Based Read‑Only Metadata Attributes-No97

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11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Prevent overwriting or deleting existing enrichments when re‑importing metadata-No95

We need to enable notifications or have a validation mechanisms, or controls when re‑importing metadata to prevent overwriting or deleting existing enrichments.
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Automate NooBaa secret creation in ArgoCD deployment workflow for watsonx Orchestrate to eliminate manual post-deployment steps.

When deploying watsonx Orchestrate using ArgoCD workflow, the WxO operator creates an ObjectBucketClaim (wo-milvus-storage-bucket) but never creates three required secrets that wo-tools-runtime-manager pod needs: - noobaa-account-watsonx-orchestra...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

CP4D portal‑style customization

Introduce a comprehensive, portal‑style customization framework accessible to platform administrators. The objective is to empower administrators to tailor the appearance, content, and organization of product pages within the CP4D web interface, w...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Execution Order of Before SQL and SELECT with Runtime Column Propagation Enabled in Redshift connector.

When Runtime Column Propagation (RCP) is enabled in Redshift connector, DataStage executes the SELECT statement during the stage check phase to infer metadata. If the SELECT depends on a table or view created dynamically in Before SQL, the job fai...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

DataStage must allow developers to choose a Github branch to commit

Github branch is enabled at project level. This can only be updated by accessing project settings. This raised two concerns. 1. Developers are forced to commit all jobs into the same branch. They do not have an option to choose a different branch ...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Minimize downtime during OCP upgrade

Introduce an officially supported, OpenShift upgrade pattern for Cloud Pak for Data (CPD) and watsonx.data deployments. This enhancement would allow OpenShift control‑plane and worker nodes to be upgraded while CPD platform components and services...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Adding Create option in Table action section of Redshift Connector stage

Currently in Redshift Connector only have Append, Replace and Truncate options only. I am proposing to add Create option in Table Action section similar to Teradata Connector. This will enable option to create table if not exists. At present Appen...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review