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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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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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IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

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

Simplify Data Quality (DQ) Violation Management by removing the need for a dedicated database table for storing DQ violations.

Currently, managing Metadata Enrichment DQ violations requires users to create and maintain a separate table in an external database, which complicates the process and adds unnecessary overhead. While CP4D has the capability to access DQ violation...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

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

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

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

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

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