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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Need an api for updating Metadata Enrichment results - specific fields

We request the development of a custom POST API to streamline our processes. We couldn’t find an existing API that meets our requirements, and the current API options in the CP4D, create significant development overhead for our team. Below is our ...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

CDC Deployment on Red Hat Linux 9.x

Change Data Capture for Linux should be also available for Red Hat Linux 9.x. Actually it is only supported on RH 8.x.
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Planned for future release

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…)TS017408...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

CDC DB2z Remote Source With Started Tasks Create Temp Table With an IN clause in the DDL

Currently when using started task, a refresh of a table will cause a CREATE Table DDL to run. The DDL assumed the table will be created with the schema as defined in dmconfigurets program and will create in a default DB2 databases such as DSNDB04 ...
8 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Compilation of pipelines from GUI

Requesting for an option to compile pipelines from UI. We are successfully able to compile the DataStage flows from UI but looking for same for pipelines as well. We are compiling pipelines from command line using CPDCTL commands as a workaround.
8 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Automate install using ACM

Automate the installation and configuration of IBM Cloud Pak for Data using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Manager (ACM). There is a git repo available that explains how this can be completed via policies and kustomize, but it fully supported via helm.R...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Ability to resize the columns across the job page, as well as any other columns in order to see text that is too long

Column Resizing so that we can see the full line of text and not have it cut off if the text is too long. The ability to resize would help for copying and pasting pieces of the string or the entire string itself.
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Leaving certain Omegamon KD2 parameters empty in the configuration will cause RTE failures.

Why: Validating Omegamon configuration parameters in the configuration manager/PARMGEN will prevent failures in the RTE, and thus production issues. The issue: Currently Omegamon KD2 parameters are not validated for being left empty or undefined. ...