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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Identity Provider Basic Settings

The settings of the identity providers are currently inconsistent. There should be basic settings the same for all identity providers: 1) Disable Checkbox: -> at the moment I have to delete a identity provider to turn it off. Only the openshift...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Login prompt option is not visible when we are using OIDC/SAML provider

When logging in using an OIDC provider, username and password fields in the UI are not visible to facilitate login for technical users. Generally for the personal login, OIDC should just login without prompting username and password. But we need t...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Add automated data drift detection to SQL Data Insights Pro that alerts users when underlying column/table data has shifted beyond a configurable threshold (e.g., 5–10%), signaling that the AI model needs retraining.

SQL DI Pro supports incremental retraining but has no built-in signal for when retraining is needed. As source data shifts — new segments, changing transaction patterns — embeddings can go stale with no warning to the user.Requesting a data drift ...
3 months ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 0 Submitted

Allow Db2 connection without password

When creating Db2 connection, for example Db2 for Z or Db2 for Datastage, the password field is mandatory. This prevents creation of connections that use certificates for authentication (because those don't need password). Even if a random passwor...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Support for Multiple URLs for Cloud PAK for Data

Currently only one "main" URL is supported for Cloud PAK for data. We want to give an external partner access to cloud pak for Data, because this partner should develop for us. To be able to expose cloud pak for data to the web we have to do three...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Simplify Data Quality (DQ) Violation Management by removing the need for a dedicated database table for storing DQ violations.

Currently, managing Metadata Enrichment DQ violations requires users to create and maintain a separate table in an external database, which complicates the process and adds unnecessary overhead. While CP4D has the capability to access DQ violation...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Capability of assigning artifacts and related items to the catalog is missing from Watsonx Data Intelligence MCP

The watsonx-data-intelligence-mcp-server currently does not provide a tool to perform governance actions such as assigning business terms or other governance artifacts to catalog assets. This enhancement proposes adding MCP capabilities that enabl...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Add support for Before SQL file and After SQL file e in the Redshift connector, similar to the existing functionality in the Teradata connector.

Our organization is currently migrating from Teradata to Amazon Redshift, and we have discovered a significant gap between the Teradata connector and the Redshift connector in IBM DataStage. The Teradata connector currently provides the ability to...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

DB2 Connection mixed Settings when using vault

A the moment I have to set all parameters into a vault, if I choose "Use secrets from a vault". This is some sort of stupid, because in my opinion parameters like applicationname or client hostname have nothing todo with a secret. Unfortunately he...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Functionality already exists

Unconsolidated Permissions

Problem: I expected to have all permissions at the "Access-control" Tab. Unfortunately it is not like this. As I know by today there are also permissions to be set at the "Data>Connectivity" Tab and I don't know where else there are. This makes...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration