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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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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

Allow InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog to Connect to Cognos Analytics (CA11.x.x & above)

Currently we don't have an 'out-of-the' box solution to read Metadata information of our BI Models & Reports from our Cognos Analytics (CA 11.1.1) from IGC (we are on version 11.7.0.2). As per IBM support, only version up to Cognos 10.2.2 vers...
over 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 2 Not under consideration

Azure connector with SAS token

A shared access signature (SAS) provides a way to grant limited access to objects in the azure storage account to other clients, without exposing the account key.SAS keys are standard practice and with IS v.11.7 not being possible to use it, the i...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

PL/SQL MITI Bridge to detect SQL in a variable

When importing metadata with the PL/SQL MITI Bridge, the import does not detect transformation within defined variables. For example: literal:= 'INSERT INTO aux_DDLEXAMPLE SELECT NU_TELEFONO_RGTR, IT_REGISTRO_RGTR FROM DDLEXAMPLE_TABLE'; literal; ...
over 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

implement data rule "MATCHES_DATACLASS" in DataStage

No workaround available. Need to have the product behaving like documented
over 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 1 Not under consideration

Connector Key Columns

Add "Key Columns" as in Netezza Connector also to other Connectors.
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 4 Not under consideration

Allow customization of the Launchpad Web UI

As a customer I have a few different instances of IIS Servers running in Development, Test and Production. We often use the IP or hostname in the URL for Launchpad, but these names are generic and not informative. Users often get confused as to wh...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

IA Data Rule unable to rename on IGC new UI console in V11.7

Currently with v11.7, they have introduced the IGC New console thin client to manage the IA part and it user friendly than the IA thick client. Future version thick client won't be used and available. So When User try to rename the IA data rule, i...
over 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

Allow removal of unused apps from IIS Microservices Launchpad

In some IIS installations, the IIS Microservices Launchpad shows applications that are not being used. For example, the Standardization Rules Designer is shown in installations without QualityStage. Governance Dashboard is shown in installations w...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

ODBC - Bulk Load capability

CP4D - DataStage will be used in the data flows defined in our datalake using Postgres and Azure SQL. Because we are required to use the ODBC Connector for the connections we require the capability of doing Bulk Loads , exactly as this is offered ...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration