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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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MDM version 11.0.6.12 and 12.0.1 compatibility with OCP version 4.18

Please do the thorough testing for MDM version 11.0.6.12 and 12.0.1 compatibility with OCP version 4.18. This is required within 15 days to be completed as we are upgrading OCP version from 4.16 to 4.18 starting Oct 2025. Our MDM application along...
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

MDM CR operator should check for all the valid connections/path at the time of reconciling .

Operators are designed to watch for changes in a set of resources, which can include Secrets , ConfigMaps , and other Kubernetes resources. The operator should watch for changes to resources (including secrets) and then take action accordingly. Bu...
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

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...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

New MDM and Datastage releases available on RHEL 9.x on Power

Customer is currently running on X86 are InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) v11.6/v12 & InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) v11.7. It is expected that MDM on RHEL 9 will be announced early 2024 and in order to have a chance at this winbac...
about 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Java 17 Version of madapi.jar/InfoSphere MDM

Allstate has an AppFabric upgrade which includes Java 17 that we all need to complete for all of our Paas1 and 2 Services before end of Q3 due to compliance. Some of these Services call InfoSphere and therefore use the current version of the madap...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 2 Under review

Support NetApp SnapMirror technology for low-RPO Backup/Restore Capability

Support the use of NetApp (trident) SnapMirror technology (via Astra Control Center and/or Trident Protect) to provide a low-RPO solution for backup and recovery of CP4D in an alternate failover location.
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Under review

Capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D

We would like to capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D. This will provide visibility on what customer transactions are running on the platform. The key fields that we are interested in are as follow...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

support for hypervisor Nutanix Acropolis 5.10

support for hypervisor Nutanix Acropolis 5.10 or higher this is now supported for mdm 11.6.0.11 and higher though not supported for 11.6.0.2 which is the last version for Reference Data Management.
5 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted