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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.

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.

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Cloud Pak for Data

Introduce support for users to modify the target publish location for an MDI publishing job after it has been created.

Enable users to modify the target publish location of an existing MDI publishing job without recreating the job, improving operational flexibility and reducing administrative effort.
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Rerunning MDE publish job from Job UI

We would like the ability to rerun an MDE publish job directly from the Job UI page. Currently, the play icon is disabled, preventing users from re-executing a previously completed publish job.In many situations, this capability would significantl...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Allow Replication of a Subset of Columns from Db2 for z/OS using Db2 Data Gate

Allow customers to define which columns of a Db2 for z/OS table should be replicated to Db2 Data Gate, reducing storage requirements, replication overhead, and unnecessary data exposure. Today, when a table is added to Db2 Data Gate using the SYSP...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

The column DisplayName must be populated in the reporting database table container_data_asset_columns

The column DisplayName must be populated in the reporting database table container_data_asset_columns, consistently with what is displayed in the UI This information, as created by scanners and shown in the UI, must be propagated to the reporting ...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

IBM Software Hub – Expand cpd-cli OADP Online Backup Capability to Store Backups (Metadata + Volumes) Outside OCP Cluster / ODF Storage

Summary: We are requesting a product enhancement for IBM Software Hub to expand the cpd-cli OADP online backup capability so that backups — including both metadata and volume data — can be stored outside the OpenShift cluster / ODF storage, rather...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Tabular view of the Custom Metrics with the metric name and value in a table on a single page

Ability to see view all custom metrics in the UI in a table with the metric name and value instead of selecting up to 5 custom metrics to view as a line plot.  The dashboard currently displays custom metrics as line plots and allows user to s...

Need the ability to see the transaction level data in the UI for Gen AI monitored models.

GenAI monitoring one can not currently drill down from aggregated metrics to individual records, unlike the ML model view, which show transaction-level details. The application teams needed transaction IDs alongside input- and output-token counts ...

Storage volumes: show actual used space (not only allocated) and allow PVC expansion from the platform UI

As a platform administrator you can use the Total resource usage → Volumes page to keep storage under control. The table lists every PVC with its provisioned capacity ("PVC size"), phase, service, service instance and access mode, but it only show...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Support for persistent global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables in Db2 Data Gate for Db2 for z/OS to Db2 LUW topologies

In Db2 Data Gate topologies that replicate data from Db2 for z/OS to Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW), there is currently a functional limitation in which global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables are not supported, as documente...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Remote Development Integration with IBM Bob IDE

Executive Summary Request for official integration between IBM Bob IDE and IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to enable seamless remote development workflows. Currently, the Microsoft Remote-SSH extension blocks connectivity when using IBM Bob (a VS Co...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Submitted