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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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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.

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Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Make the UI actually usable

The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 4 Under review

Show full timestamp in listings

The “Date Created” column displays relative timestamps (e.g., “A year ago”) instead of the actual date and time. This is unhelpful, as it obscures precise information unless hovered over. Please display the full timestamp by default. This issue ex...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable Automatic Onboarding of LDAP Users to IKC Without Initial Login

Currently, users from enterprise LDAP are successfully auto-propagated to the Access Control section in IBM Software Hub through their assigned Active Directory (AD) groups. However, these users do not appear in IKC until they log in for the first...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

enhance filter for DB object to import into IKC

After executing metadata import from DB2 I need to review list or imported obects and remove some of them which wouldn't likely be the subject of further metadata enrichment work. Using the interface I cannot find a way to isolate one type from an...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Add ability to delete orphaned jobs on Platform

Currently, the only way to delete orphaned jobs is to remove the directories using these commands: rm -rf /data/pipelines/<pipeline ID> rm -rf /data/runInfo/<pipeline ID> Please add the ability to delete orphaned jobs for either the fo...
over 1 year ago in StreamSets 2 Needs more information

Vault Kv1 Support

Currently we are trying to utilize our existing vault infrastructure but we are running into an issue where kv1 is not supported. Anyway to include this soon by chance?
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

Streamsets on prem support Single Node Openshift

StreamSets on prem deployment requires too much hardware resources. A lightweight deployment is needed, with support for single-node OpenShift.
3 months ago in StreamSets 1 Future consideration

Support LDAP when uid's do are not "full dn"

Add SCH On-Prem's LDAP synchronization support for the posixGroup object class. Currently does not have support for LDAP directories using posixGroup uid’s because they don’t include a member's full dn.
over 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Not under consideration

Snowpipe Streaming destination for Snowflake

Current Snowflake destination has performance limitations due to the nature of file-based process of uploading to Snowflake. Since 2023, Snowflake supports Snowpipe Streaming ingestion which doesn't have problems related to file-based upload, has ...
6 months ago in StreamSets 0