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.

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    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

    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

    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

    SSH/SFTP Server for PVC Filetransfers

    We would like to have the ability to run a ssh/sftp server, to be able to easily upload and download files from/to cloud pak for data. Most of our current processes are scheduled with IWS and there are simple shell file copys implemented. Reasons:...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

    Add support to ldap:// URL type connection

    It seems Oracle supports LDAP URL to connect to a DDBB instead the typical JDBC URL. The idea of this capacity is abstract the real place where a DB is served from clients access, so they are able to move a service between instances and clients wo...
    7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

    Enhance email notifications for job completions by providing more detailed information and direct links to results.

    Currently, users receive email notifications upon the completion of MDE or DQ rule jobs, but these notifications lack essential details and only include a link to the job log. To improve the user experience and facilitate quicker access to results...
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

    Automated resource management for CP4D via API and YAML (or equivalent) – for users, groups, projects entities

    As the user numbers on the on prem CP4D and wx.ai clusters are scaling the client wants to be able to limit resources for the developers in an automated way via APIs defined by YAML or similar. Limiting resources is available as of today in a supp...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

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