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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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Cloud Pak for Data

We need to establish a connection to Hive using a specific connection string that includes Kerberos authentication along with an additional option: server2.proxy.user.

An example of connection string: jdbc:hive2://AAA.sede.corp.com:10000/;ssl=true;sslTrustStore=/opt/informatica/kerberos/cm-auto-global_truststore.jks;trustStorePassword=SSSFFRRR;principal=hive/AAA.sede.corp.sanpaoloimi.com@SEDE.CORP.COM;hive.serve...
about 14 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity Submitted

Display minor version on the About page

At present the About page on the Software Hub UI only shows major versions for example 5.3 instead of 5.3.x . Business users cannot validate the version number
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Show Governance Rule description within Explore Relationship graph view

The request is that, in the Explore Relationships view, when hovering over the Governance Rule object (in my example, test GR), the object’s Description should also be displayed, just as it appears in the right-hand panel under the Item metadata t...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Make CPD vault secret sharing dynamic when using a group

On Cloud-Pak-for-Data (CPD), an existing internal vault's secret is shared with other CPD users via a group (e.g. CPD shadow group that is linked to an OIDC IDP group) When a new user is added to this group (on the IDP), the vault secret is still ...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Dumping DB/schema tables into parquet files

Parquet files are becoming a standard for storing tables as flat files and moving data between different systems. Netezza currently supports parquet files as external tables but only using minIO. Would be great if there would be a way to offload w...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server Submitted

HISTDB logging access to views

In HISTDB on Netezza we are logging access to tables but not access to views. Would be great if at least access to the main view without any referenced views would be logged.
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server 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...
14 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...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Role‑Based Read‑Only Metadata Attributes-No97

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Provide the capability to define certain metadata attributes as read‑only by default, such as Criticality Rating and PRP ...
19 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.
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted