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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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CP4D documentation must be available outside cloud.ibm.com

Citi considers cloud.ibm.com as SaaS website and restricts it internally. Unfortunately, most of CP4D documentation are only available in cloud.ibm.com. Especially API commands. Please make it available in the official Cloud Pak for Data documenta...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

DataStage Flows View in IKC project need to control based on User Role and Project purpose

Please note this is an extension of previous idea - CPDIDEAS-I-2331 ( IBM Ideas) Need IKC Project User View (or access) restrictions based on DataQuality, DataStage and Metadata harvesting purpose. Proposing 3 kinds of Project Views - IKC project ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

Writing Iceberg data format working with specific catalog (for example Dremio)

Hi Using CPD Datastage tool, we can write a data in Iceberg format using Generic S3 component. But we want to write this iceberg format data that we wrote to a Storage volume to a desired catalog (Hive, Nessie, etc.). In this transfer, we cannot s...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

MSSQL platform connection fails when user attempts to save the connection

Users are facing issues with MSSQL platform connection when attempting to save the connection for created projects. Users are able to test the connection successfully but are not able to save the connection which is stopping the users from perform...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

Add a Custom URL to the Home Page

Allow the customer to add a custom URL to the Home Page under Support.
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios to support Enterprise Customers' requirements for failover/BC/DR
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

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...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Future consideration

Automate NooBaa secret creation in ArgoCD deployment workflow for watsonx Orchestrate to eliminate manual post-deployment steps.

When deploying watsonx Orchestrate using ArgoCD workflow, the WxO operator creates an ObjectBucketClaim (wo-milvus-storage-bucket) but never creates three required secrets that wo-tools-runtime-manager pod needs: - noobaa-account-watsonx-orchestra...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Handling commas in RDS codes

When uploading codes with commas in the code, the RDS will export with \\ to manage the comma. The \\ need to be replaced with a double quote to align with csv formatting best practices.
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release