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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.

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Preview for row generator in DataStage

Preview is not offered for row generator, but only for data connections. In the legacy Designer all source stages had a preview option. This is particularly important for a a row generator when you want to check if the generated content is like ex...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Software Hub support for Hashicorp Vault authentication using AppRole role id/secret id

Software Hub and Cloud Pak for Data services allow for vault and secrets using an external HashiCorp vault integration. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=2-managing-secrets-vaults#vaults__vaults-overview However, this configurat...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios to support Enterprise Customers' requirements for failover/BC/DR
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Provide alternate authentication method for system accounts (different from user authentication method)

Safer Payments v6.8 introduced full OIDC support. In this version, Safer Payments now does the "heavy lifting", communication directly with the IDP to retrieve an ID token containing the user's information. This is a great feature and works with a...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Pod Documentation

We would need a Page in the documentation where all pods are described and its usage based on software usage. The last year we often strugeled to know which pod to restart as a first measure to solve bugs. Most times we opened a ticket and afterwa...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

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

enhance filter for DB object to import into IKC

After executing metadata import from DB2 I need to review list or imported obects and remove some of them which wouldn't likely be the subject of further metadata enrichment work. Using the interface I cannot find a way to isolate one type from an...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Restore Polish Language Support and Documentation in IBM SPSS Statistics 31

We would like to draw attention to the lack of help and documentation in Polish in the latest version of IBM SPSS Statistics 31.In version 29.0.2, Polish was available as one of the supported locales, which significantly facilitated the work of Po...
6 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Vault Kv1 Support

Currently we are trying to utilize our existing vault infrastructure but we are running into an issue where kv1 is not supported. Anyway to include this soon by chance?
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

We would like to update a field length and not lose historical data

When we update the field max from 16 to 35 we don't want IBM Safer to wipe out existing data for that field
6 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted