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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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Cloud Pak for Data

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Charge out model for CPD. Single Tenant, broken down by business unit, broken down by country........

Customers have been asking for a charge out / charge back model for a while. Ritesh Gupta is aware of this request.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Create an option on the UI to Duplicate a connection in Datastage

Currently we have an option to create duplicate pipelines and flows, but not the connection. It would help the developers if there is an option to create duplicate connection
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Submitted

Provide ability to schedule CPD DataStage jobs to run multiple times per day.

We have various jobs that need to be run multiple times per day, at 2 hour intervals or 4 times per day at scheduled times.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Preview for row generator in DataStage

Preview is not offered for row generator, but only for data connections. In the legacy Designer all source stages had a preview option. This is particularly important for a a row generator when you want to check if the generated content is like ex...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Persistent URL for glossary assets - do not change when new version is published.

Today, when a glossary asset (e.g., Term, Rule) is updated and published, its URL changes. The version number is appended to the end. We want a persistent URL that will always link to the current, active version of the glossary asset - no matter w...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

The grpc-cpd route currently does not support customizing or renaming the route. At this time, the platform only supports using the default route name that is automatically created for gRPC traffic. We need this functionality for the route so that we can use the Vanity urls instead of using cluster DNS suffixes, which is against Ford policy.

The grpc-cpd route currently does not support customizing or renaming the route. At this time, the platform only supports using the default route name that is automatically created for gRPC traffic. We need this functionality for the route so that...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

The grpc-cpd route currently does not support customizing or renaming the route. At this time, the platform only supports using the default route name that is automatically created for gRPC traffic. We need this functionality for the route so that we can use the Vanity urls instead of using cluster DNS suffixes, which is against Ford policy.

The grpc-cpd route currently does not support customizing or renaming the route. At this time, the platform only supports using the default route name that is automatically created for gRPC traffic. We need this functionality for the route so that...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration