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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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Cloud Pak for Data

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Need an api for updating Metadata Enrichment results - specific fields

We request the development of a custom POST API to streamline our processes. We couldn’t find an existing API that meets our requirements, and the current API options in the CP4D, create significant development overhead for our team. Below is our ...
29 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson API Toolkit 0 Submitted

Resolve major security violations

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment that is compliant with our security requirements. During a POC, we discovered that the Db2 portion of GDSC results in a number of s...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Remove need for cross-namespace permissions in OLM by providing raw YAML files

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment that is compliant with our security requirments. In order to do that, we must remove any component that requires cross-namespace pe...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Ability to install and run using an internal private registry

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment. In order to that, we need to be able to use our own internal private registry that is not reliant on OpenShift or OLM (see other i...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...

How to identify missing assets between IKC catalog and reporting DB

How to identify missing assets between IKC catalog and reporting DB so that we can re-trigger them
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Dashboard for Data Protection Rules

Dashboard for Data Protection Rules, a better way to visualize a large amount of rules and what they affect
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Privacy 0 Submitted