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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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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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Cloud Pak for Data

Adopt AWS Native Redshift Drivers Instead of IBM-Provided Redshift Drivers

Why is it useful? The AWS-provided native Redshift drivers are actively maintained and regularly updated by AWS to incorporate the latest performance optimizations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. In contrast, the IBM-provided Redshift driver...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Relationship explorer - allow "focus artifact" to be switched without having to recreate the whole canvas

Using relationship explorer I can start from e.g. a specific business term, and then include related terms, primary category etc. It takes a good amount of effort to click through, decide on the layout etc. Now afterwards, I would like to reproduc...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Support for Multiple URLs for Cloud PAK for Data

Currently only one "main" URL is supported for Cloud PAK for data. We want to give an external partner access to cloud pak for Data, because this partner should develop for us. To be able to expose cloud pak for data to the web we have to do three...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Feature Request for IBM Knowledge Catalog: Support for Metadata Import from AWS S3 with Deeply Nested Parquet Partition Structures

We have a data source stored on Amazon S3, and we have successfully established a connection to it within the IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) environment. The data is stored in Parquet format, and the cloud team has ensured that all required permissio...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Add support for Before SQL file and After SQL file e in the Redshift connector, similar to the existing functionality in the Teradata connector.

Our organization is currently migrating from Teradata to Amazon Redshift, and we have discovered a significant gap between the Teradata connector and the Redshift connector in IBM DataStage. The Teradata connector currently provides the ability to...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Differentiate API Success Responses When No File Is Uploaded (Volume API / upFile Handling)

Problem Statement When calling the CP4D Volume API to upload a file, the endpoint returns the same generic “Success” response in two different cases: A file is actually uploaded, and No file is uploaded (e.g., due to a missing @ in curl or an auto...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Audit log should action originating IP

Having originating IP in shipped Audit logs is considered a main functionality, this addresses the security gap where security team cannot identify where this request is initiated from? who is taking actions? is it someone who has access to take a...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Capability for dynamic default selection in the single selector tile

We are having the Periods dimension used in the single selector tile in the workbook within Planning Analytics Workspace. The selector shows the list of the months within the current year. We have a business requirement that whenever the user open...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics Submitted

Data Source Filters Not Applied During Schema and Table Listing in Data Virtualization Explore

When applying a filter at the data source level in Data Virtualization, this filter is not respected when browsing schemas and tables through the Explore interface while virtualizing objects. Specifically, even after configuring filters on the dat...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization Submitted

Enhance DV to paralellize reading data when doing a large read to an API application

Using api can be subject to slow SaaS applications, throttled SaaS applications and where getting the data using DV can take a long time. We are also experimenting using caching and that has provided good results. But this DV Request is to paralle...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization Submitted