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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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Connectivity

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Connect to SAP Datasphere as a datasource for connection and for IKC.

SAP Datasphere is a new data warehouse from SAP competing with Snowflake, Google Bigquery, Azure Redshift, Db2 and other data catalog solutions for SAP data. Clients who are deploying SAP would use Datasphere for connecting, managing, cataloging a...
27 days ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

Allow the currentPackageSet property for insert buffering to be set in platform connections for DB2WH & DB2 to leverage performance improvements.

During Performance Load Testing with Db2Wh Gen3 LMCO noticed major performance improvements when enabling Db2 server side Insert Buffering :https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-enable-db2-server-side-insert-buffering-jdbc-type-4-applications But ...
5 days ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

location property exposed in bigquery connector

Is it possibile to consider exposing the location property in the bigquery connector such that a default location can be forced CP4D side? Executing jobs that use the statements SELECT FROM EXTERNAL TABLE while the bigquery database is located in ...
26 days ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

DataStage or Cloud Pak for Data does not support IAM role-based access to the S3 bucket

The current version of DataStage or Cloud Pak for Data does not support IAM role-based access to the S3 bucket. Due to security constraints, instead of using an access key/secret key, it would be ideal if the S3 connector allowed the use of IAM ro...
15 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Connection from CPD Manta for data lineage to Azure Managed Instance using the service principal/entra ID

Due to the security systems around our clients data, the security team has requested that we use service principals/entra ID when connecting to the Azure SQL/Managed databases/instances.
3 months ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Allow additional parameter configurations, like transaction isolation level, during DB2 connection setup

Currently, options such as setting the transaction isolation level are only available in the 'Generic JDBC' connector. By enabling these settings directly within the DB2 connection setup, users will have greater flexibility and control over connec...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

MFA Authentication to snowflake using OKTA

In our SNOWFLAKE Environment, Password login is disabled and authentication is through OKTA only for all users. When we are trying import a table from snowflake, it is asking for username and credentials. Since, users doesn't have credentials, the...
3 months ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

JDBC connection with Kerberos not working

Unable to establish a JDBC connection from Windows using Kerberos authentication. Windows is supported and so is Kerberos so this should be working. IBM code doesn't take into account using API as ccache or MSLSA with credential guard. That is a c...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

DataDirect jdbc driver for mongodb support balanced string

Then this idea stems from the fact that the customer wanted to connect to mongodb through our jdbc driver, however their mongodb team provided him with a balanced string with a replicaset parameter that allows you to replicate data on the affected...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration