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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Future consideration

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

Make the UI actually usable

The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 4 Under review

Show full timestamp in listings

The “Date Created” column displays relative timestamps (e.g., “A year ago”) instead of the actual date and time. This is unhelpful, as it obscures precise information unless hovered over. Please display the full timestamp by default. This issue ex...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Consider AMD ccd in affinity string

Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

PXRuntime no down time support for Walmart

We need a product enhancement to support no down time during the OpenShift maintenance. OpenShift maintenance typically requires node restart. If DataStage PXRuntime pods were running on those worker nodes, the jobs will fail. If we have a control...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0

allow bresize request on job using affinity string.

due to AMD Zen arch processor, we plan to use affinity string for all jobs to force job processes to run into the smallest number of ccd, to improve performance. but bresize increase command refuse to work when an affinity string is present in the...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

transformation rules outside of DataStage

We now have transformation rules outside of DataStage, so if there's a change, we do not need a DataStage engineer to change this transformation rule.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Merge RES_REQ also when alternative RES_REQs are used

Currently settings from the app-profile are not merges with the job/queue settings when a alternative RES_REQ is provided in the submission command (bsub). We require this because we have a need to specify alternative RES_REQs in the submission an...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration