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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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Cloud Pak for Data

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Preview for row generator in DataStage

Preview is not offered for row generator, but only for data connections. In the legacy Designer all source stages had a preview option. This is particularly important for a a row generator when you want to check if the generated content is like ex...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Support for CyberArk agentless password retrieval / WCS protocol

Today in CP4D we support CyberArk AAM - Citi is asking us to support CyberArk WCS protocol as that is their standard.
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

DEBUG Level logging support across all Cloud Pak for Data services

At this time we have not standardized the implementation of DEBUG level logging for all CP4D services. Some services support enabling DEBUG level logging but that needs to be done manually through the deployment, ie. "oc edit deployment <deploy...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

CP4D - Restrict multiple users simultaneously opening the same flow to make changes - Addition of version name to the Dialog box.

This is in continuation of case #TS015396049. As of today, When two users open the same flow and one user change the flowed and saved it. There is a popup which gets displayed with the second user on who changed it and time as well. in addition to...
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable Automatic Onboarding of LDAP Users to IKC Without Initial Login

Currently, users from enterprise LDAP are successfully auto-propagated to the Access Control section in IBM Software Hub through their assigned Active Directory (AD) groups. However, these users do not appear in IKC until they log in for the first...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Datastage Migration Service Should Honor CP4D Folder Structures

In the context of a CP4D Datastage Project with Folders enabled... When a migration is performed (in my case from cpdctl) using an ISX file containing Legacy Datastage Assets (e.g. 11.3) that also exist in the CP4D project, the migration service b...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Salesforce API Stage Connectivity for DataStage - need mutual authentication supported

Citi has a mandate that all connection to salesforce should be mutually authenticate. Any connection to salesforce should be through mutual auth port 8443 and certificate to be passed all time Below is the link, that explains about setting up mutu...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Under review

Hashi Vault support for Kv1 engine

CPD does not support Hashi Vault using the Kv1 engine at the moment. We would request to enhance CPD product which includes support for Hashi vault Kv1 engine too.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Customize the grpc route

IBM gives us the option of customizing the cpd route: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=platform-modifying-route But not the grpc-cpd route. Can you set up a procedure to have the same possibility?
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted