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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Bug Windows Toolkit Import Failure

There is a bug and a typo in the import toolkit function documented at this link (https://developer.watson-orchestrate.ibm.com/tools/toolkits/python_toolkits#importing-python-toolkits). Typo Please amend the add command ``` orchestrate toolkits ad...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Enable to export new workbook in viewer

In excel, when you export a view to a spreadsheet, it asks for if we want this on the current workbook or in a new workbook. However, if we did the same task in the viewer, it defaults to current workbook and new sheet. It doesn't give the same op...
7 minutes ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

We need to establish a connection to Hive using a specific connection string that includes Kerberos authentication along with an additional option: server2.proxy.user.

An example of connection string: jdbc:hive2://AAA.sede.corp.com:10000/;ssl=true;sslTrustStore=/opt/informatica/kerberos/cm-auto-global_truststore.jks;trustStorePassword=SSSFFRRR;principal=hive/AAA.sede.corp.sanpaoloimi.com@SEDE.CORP.COM;hive.serve...
42 minutes ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity Submitted

Multi-tenancy support for Analytics Engine Spark

Client has two CP4D installs that require multi-tenancy support. One install's use case is MLOps, while the other is pure Spark compute usage. They would like to separate/isolate workloads by tenants, while maintaining a uniform UI. As these two s...
about 12 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Multi-tenancy support for WatsonX.Data Spark Engine

Client has two CP4D installs that require multi-tenancy support. One install's use case is MLOps, while the other is pure Spark compute usage. They would like to separate/isolate workloads by tenants, while maintaining a uniform UI. We are proposi...
about 12 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Request for a new Count authority in Db2

Normally a lot of organisations have production and customer data not visible to the DBA authority without some kind of enhanced access. For quite a few implementations and production support tasks DBAs or even application support staff are only p...
about 21 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Deactivation of ownership based authorization checking

Currently during the authorization check in DB2 there is a mixture of possible rules giving access to operation/resource one of which is the ownership check. In principle, this is a disturbing part of authorization check from the security administ...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Allow Selection of Individual Objects When Creating a Data Module Based on an Existing Data Module

When creating a new data module based on an existing data module, Cognos Analytics currently loads the entire source data module by default. In our environment, we have very large data modules with more than 500 query subjects. As a result, the in...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Display minor version on the About page

At present the About page on the Software Hub UI only shows major versions for example 5.3 instead of 5.3.x . Business users cannot validate the version number
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Embedded IBM WalkMe Solutions

As part of our current setup, the IBM-provided WalkMe implementations are already embedded and visible within the platform. However, when we update the WalkMe snippet from our settings to enable our own WalkMe content, the IBM-provided WalkMe impl...
1 day ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other Submitted