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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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Connecting to Amazon Neptune

The customer has a graph database on Amazon Neptune and wants to establish a connection between CP4D and Neptune so they can create machine learning models using those databases (and leveraging the GPUs available on CP4D). As a workaround, we will...
28 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Implement Oracle Connection Manager in default connector

Oracle Connection Manager is a widely implemented and popular enterprise feature that adds a proxy layer before Oracle databases, exposing services such as session multiplexing, access control, and protocol conversion. Cloud Pak for Data should al...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

Paging through many data assets

My project team has tens of thousands of data assets in a project and they need to work with all of those assets from the assets view, but it's difficult to do so (in version 5.1.3). They want to publish all the data assets to a catalog. 1) They c...
17 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
9 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

FileNet CPE - support for EntraID without ROPC

Currently, it is not possible to deploy Content Platform Engine with Microsoft Entra ID as the identity provider without enabling the ROPC (Resource Owner Password Credentials) flow on the Entra ID side. Content Platform Engine requires a system u...
14 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

SAP Odata connector must support filters applied on properties that are not present in the returned dataset

Currently, the connector is able to filter based on the properties returned in the dataset by composing URLs like:.../YPP_CP_TASK_CP4DResults?$filter=A4YPP_CP_TASKZCPR_PROJ eq '802-P0009'. The SAP OData service allows the definition of properties ...
12 months ago in Connectivity Under review

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - limit available data source options

The list of data sources in CP4D is very large and a lot of them are irrelevant to our users. There should be an option to limit what data source options are visible for users. And as an option it would allow restriction to apply so that users can...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

Always on Availability in SQL Server platform connection

We are currently using the SQL Sever Driver in CP4D to connect to a specific database using the CP4D sql server platform connection and it is used for metadata import, metadata enrichment, DQ Rules and Datastage flows for ETLs among other things. ...
16 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

CP4D (IKC + Manta OEM ) EDB postgreSQL connector support (MDI, MDE, Lineage, IKC DB reporting)

Context: CP4D SW v>=5.2.1 with Manta OEM Customer (Intesa SanPaolo Italy) need to use a CP4D supported EDB postgreSQL connector to implement: - Meta Data Import - Meta Data Enrichment - Lineage (using MDI get lineage from "IKC") - DB reporting ...
10 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

Please support LockTimeout parameter in IBM data server provider for .NET

It's currently not possible to configure the LockTimeout Parameter in .net applications on client side (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1?topic=keywords-locktimeout). This would help us to optimize our environment.
over 1 year ago in Connectivity Under review