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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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Information Analyzer Virtual table data security

We have observed VT data security issues in Information Analyzer. IA is allowing users to view and create virtual table on all data sources which are not added in current project. For example, we have two projects "USDO" and "SDMO_AML". My user id...
over 4 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

S3 connector request for Datastage (TS003424088)

Using Infosphere Information Server 11.7.1. Service Pack 2, we noticed that we are unable to create a data connection for Amazon S3 in DataStage to a private endpoint (not the usual public Amazon endpoints). We are unable to read/write information...
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Add support for more objects in the Cognos Analytics connector

Currently, the Cognos Analytics (CA) connector only allows cataloguing report and query objects, preventing proper data governance of other CA objects using IBM Knowledge Catalog. Extending support for other object types, such as Framework Models,...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Enable setting defaults to the Operations Console

The default view on the Operations Console is set to 3 days. Enabling the abilty to set the default to a user defined value would be ideal. In a citrix environment the web browser cookies are always refreshed between sessions, so the user preferen...
over 1 year ago in Information Server 0 Submitted

Salesforce select only fields for the object. Do not automatically bring back all fields in the child relationships.

This is about the DataStage Salesforce Connector. When building the Salesforce Connector Stage by importing the objects fields from Salesforce using the "Browse Objects" function . A list of tables in Salesforce will be presented. One can click th...
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Support for a Jira connector

A Public/Federal customer requires a built-in Jira connector for the on-prem Cloud Pak for Data platform. The Jira connector is requested in support of migrating 8 application workloads onto the platform. Eight distinct use cases can be migrated o...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

DataStage supporting writing data to GCP GCS with CMEK

DataStage (11.7.1) Google Cloud Storage (GCS) connector failed to write data into GCS, not supporting Customer Managed Encryption Key (CMEK). We in HSBC use CMEK in all components in GCP. If this is enabled, we can use GCS with DataStage directly....
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Certify IIS 11.5 with WinServer 2016

Micorsoft Windows Server 2016 is only supported/certified with the 11.7 version.As of now, there is no support for the version 11.5. Would you, please, certify IIS 11.5 with Microsoft Windows Server 2016! Corresponding Salesforce Case: TS001523521
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 3 Not under consideration

Introduction of SSO passthought of ACL lists. For example, SSO onto CP4D on Azure will create automatic data connections down onto the Azure FS in line with user Azure RBAC, ACL's and CP4D RBAC. This is already a key feature of Databricks and DataIQ.

Allows users to access their files in CP4D without the need to hand-crank connectuon strings.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

TLS/SSL connection between metadata repository and service tier

As per recent communication with IBM via case TS007746794, TLS/SSL connection not possible between metadata repository and service tier. Hence we would like to know when this feature will come into picture. We need this to be available as early as...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server 3 Not under consideration