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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).


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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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  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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Connection from CPD Manta for data lineage to Azure Managed Instance using the service principal/entra ID

Due to the security systems around our clients data, the security team has requested that we use service principals/entra ID when connecting to the Azure SQL/Managed databases/instances.
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

AVI stage – CENSUS_BLOCK, CENSUS_ID, CENSUS_TRACT, COUNTY_FIPS not available

THR is using AVI Stage to build the process of address verification. The census data information which we are looking for are CENSUS_BLOCK, CENSUS_ID, CENSUS_TRACT, COUNTY_FIPS. We are getting this information with CASS Verification through Altery...
about 20 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

SAS datasets for IKC Data Quality Requirements

We have a new customer request for analyzing SAS dataset( in .sas7bdat format) in IKC for Data Quality requirements. As per IBM point of contact for us, this connector is not available in IKC now. Requesting to add this connector in CP4D future re...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

WA new experience and old experience is confusing for client

Some client has many assistants, some in old experience, some in new experience. Need a unified view to better view how many assistants.
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

DB2 Connection mixed Settings when using vault

A the moment I have to set all parameters into a vault, if I choose "Use secrets from a vault". This is some sort of stupid, because in my opinion parameters like applicationname or client hostname have nothing todo with a secret. Unfortunately he...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Identity Provider Basic Settings

The settings of the identity providers are currently inconsistent. There should be basic settings the same for all identity providers: 1) Disable Checkbox: -> at the moment I have to delete a identity provider to turn it off. Only the openshift...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Unconsolidated Permissions

Problem: I expected to have all permissions at the "Access-control" Tab. Unfortunately it is not like this. As I know by today there are also permissions to be set at the "Data>Connectivity" Tab and I don't know where else there are. This makes...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Published terms under category can be filtered, but the drafts can not - please add similar filtering functionality to drafts also

We have cases where there are going to be a lot of drafts, so filtering on the drafts is just as useful to us as of the published ones. In the screenshot you can see that filters exist for published governance artifacts. But if one chooses the "Dr...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Alternative cpadmin login button

Problem: We want to get rid of the login screen and only have saml-login in place. This means useres will automatically get redirected to the cp4d landing page. I have to do this with an oc command in the openshift terminal. If I now need to login...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted