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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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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

Ordering Impact Analysis Report

The Impact Analysis Report answer I get from this option is a poorly organized document that does not allow for analyzing by element. In other words, it does not permit analyzing a program, a JCL, etc., since it is organized by variable and file n...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Create an option on the UI to Duplicate a connection in Datastage

Currently we have an option to create duplicate pipelines and flows, but not the connection. It would help the developers if there is an option to create duplicate connection
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Submitted

ADDI should be compatible to work with CICS CPSM

Lot of customer of ADDI has CICS CPSM implemented and they don't have CICS CSD. And currently ADDI is not compatible with CICS CPSM so it blocking for customers to generated reports from ADDI like transaction call graph and other reports related t...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Prevent bulk csv load from creating drafts in case a draft already exists

At the moment "according to design" a user can bulk load CSV which automatically creates drafts, even though a draft would already exist. Such behaviour (having duplicate drafts) is not possible when editing in the UI, but for mysterious reasons t...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Request for support IMS call with assembler in ADDI callgraph

ADDI cannot show IMS call with assembler in callgraph.Callgraph shows ASMTDLI but nothing beyond.It will be a nice tool for assembler analisys If ADDI support IMS call with assembler.
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Current Limitations of CP4D Role Management

Currently, although CP4D roles allow editing to add or remove functionalities, they are not recommended for user customization. This is because any changes made are reset to the default configuration whenever the zen-watcher pods are restarted. As...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

CP4D - Reference Data Sets - Column Descriptions and Default Character Length

DRAFT, enhance it based on the details at: https://ibm-analytics.slack.com/archives/CMBN9DB9C/p1758281856675439 The business would like to add a “Description” value and have the “Default character length” value displayed for the column names “Code...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Under review