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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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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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Unifying Audit logs

Reference to Case number TS021471996 Audit logs should contain display name instead of Project/Catalog/Asset internal ID (Same with roles and users added to projects or catalogs) which is non relevant to SOC team while inspecting incoming logs in ...
about 18 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Add support to ldap:// URL type connection

It seems Oracle supports LDAP URL to connect to a DDBB instead the typical JDBC URL. The idea of this capacity is abstract the real place where a DB is served from clients access, so they are able to move a service between instances and clients wo...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

importing datatype for columns view on Teradata on Information Knowledge Catalog

Actually, when we import Teradata databases, the system does not recognize the data type of columns in views.
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Default value for a field gets removed after each upgrade.

Is it possible to implement a mechanism in the upgrade process that compares the target environment’s configuration with the upgrade package to identify any deviations from the out-of-the-box configuration? If differences are detected, the package...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 0 Submitted

Improve cpdctl hotfix procedure

Currently, the only way to fix or update the cpdctl binary in CP4D (Watson Pipelines) is to manually download the latest version from GitHub and replace it in the container. This approach: Introduces compatibility risks, Lacks official support, Is...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Order of dataset should be preserved as mentioned in Job design even after going through Transformer

As part of case TS020547569, we understood that if any column that doesnt have any derivation in transformer, its getting pushed to last while creating the dataset. If we dump the dataset to file, we see its dumping the dataset in different order ...
17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Unable to Gather the Diagnostic logs from CP4D Console after 5.2.2 upgrade.

We are not able to collect Diagnostic statistics thus impacting us to gather the diagnostic logs. This issue is only happening after upgrading our CP4D version. Due to this issue, IBM support is not able to debug any issue properly. Per IBM Develo...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Flags for retention of older routes

is there a way during the backup process (via recipe or configuration or a flag) to ensure that all necessary ConfigMaps and Secrets are captured so that the routes are restored exactly as in the original setup? This would help avoid manual post-r...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Add the functionallity to filter on parameter values in the Filter stage

In the Filter stage you currently can not filter on e.g. Where Clause = #Initial_Load# = 1Where Clause = #Initial_Load# = 0 for you always have to reference a column, You either have to use a Transformer stage to achieve this or you have to create...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Use the same design for Apply/Save/Cancel buttons

Currently design for the Apply/Save/Cancel is inconsistent, requiring users to search for buttons. Apply/Save normally applies/saves and leaves an object/stage, but e.g. in the new transformer ui it saves without leaving the stage, also e.g. for P...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted