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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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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

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Simplify Data Quality (DQ) Violation Management by removing the need for a dedicated database table for storing DQ violations.

Currently, managing Metadata Enrichment DQ violations requires users to create and maintain a separate table in an external database, which complicates the process and adds unnecessary overhead. While CP4D has the capability to access DQ violation...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Persistent URL for glossary assets - do not change when new version is published.

Today, when a glossary asset (e.g., Term, Rule) is updated and published, its URL changes. The version number is appended to the end. We want a persistent URL that will always link to the current, active version of the glossary asset - no matter w...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Different Cognos versions within one CP4D cluster

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** Different Cognos versions within one cluster must be possible.Helmcharts are required on-site for ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need Postgres connector to not use positional binding

We have tested with positional binding for one usecase and wanted to test it for multiple scenarios and it would be better if IBM can make it independent of positional binding.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Need API to get the delta changed information for data assets, Government artifacts, etc

Need API to get the delta-changed information for data assets, Government artifacts, etc Please refer to the SF TS015464391 for detailed information
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Remove need for cross-namespace permissions in OLM by providing raw YAML files

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment that is compliant with our security requirments. In order to do that, we must remove any component that requires cross-namespace pe...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Not under consideration

Ability to install and run using an internal private registry

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment. In order to that, we need to be able to use our own internal private registry that is not reliant on OpenShift or OLM (see other i...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Not under consideration

Need data protection rules to work in selected catalogs rather than all in UI

Need data protection rules to work in selected catalogs rather than all. Would like this function in UI, not just API.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

SSO for REST API with Windows Active Directory accounts

We have automated work that would create/run Project and Deployment jobs. The automation is running using Windows Active Directory accounts but current the only way for the accounts to interact with REST API is to use the actual Username+Password ...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Not under consideration