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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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Status change or pending DDL when adding a KEY LABEL to an existing table

When an existing table is altered to add a KEY LABEL to enable encryption on the table, the encryption only takes effect post a Reorg (effectively post a redefinition of the underlying VSAM datasets). So the alter is effectively incomplete until s...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Export dataflows involving File System into Alation

Truist uses Informatica Power Center to process critical data elements(CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, PWX,NRDB2,Salesforce, FileSystem,PWX Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance Stewards ar...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Add terms in IKC to Automatic term assignment

Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for [automatic] term assignment’ –From IBM Documentation. Can we have the option to consider these for ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Better pagination in catalog

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window. When searching for an asset within a catalog, change from 'show more' to a multi select e.g. 20, 50, 100 rows (similar to business glossary.) **
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

auto clearance of "snappy" files

Snappy files are getting created while making AWS s3 connections under the path /dstmp. after sometime number files are getting larger and larger which may impact potential failures to jobs or environment level issues. to auto clean those IBM shou...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Enable masking credentials by default

Provide an external feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive credentials which can be retrieved through API calls for all CP4D Platform Connections. The security team at LMCO is asking if we can provide a feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive c...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

StreamSets Platform: SDK: Support for time-based SLAs on long-running jobs

Historically, StreamSets Control Hub and Data Collector had rules and alerts that could notify if pipelines/jobs hit a certain record count and other related metrics. These are only somewhat useful, such as for jobs which typically have a certain ...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Provide a new project setting that prevents project editors from adding/modifying project files (API/UI/Runtimes)

The request is to give the ability for admins to create a project with flag in which editors are not allowed to create files in the project, all runtimes (not just notebooks) will mount the project data folder as read-only (instead of read-write)....
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Capability to specify workflow trigger based on the object attribute changes (minor change vs major change)

Two different solutions options: 1. Criticality of the attribute change will be defined based on mandatory vs optional attributes 2. In workflow configuration view, user can select relavant attributes to trigger the workflow
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Exporting Lineage

We need that the exported file will contain resource key and will contain column lineage and in the same structure of the imported csv file. All this are not supported in current export lineage csv file.After changing the table structure we expect...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review