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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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  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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Improve synchronization process

Reduces time spent during component synchronization, when components are transferred from z/OS into AD server. Idea is like instead of doing full sync for all datasets (PDS/MVS) in the project, making some quick pre-scan, that would indicate if an...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Minimize downtime during OCP upgrade

Introduce an officially supported, OpenShift upgrade pattern for Cloud Pak for Data (CPD) and watsonx.data deployments. This enhancement would allow OpenShift control‑plane and worker nodes to be upgraded while CPD platform components and services...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Adding Create option in Table action section of Redshift Connector stage

Currently in Redshift Connector only have Append, Replace and Truncate options only. I am proposing to add Create option in Table Action section similar to Teradata Connector. This will enable option to create table if not exists. At present Appen...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Add Collaborator as Group created IBM Console HUB in DataStage Project In CP4D

Hi Team, We have created IBM PMR for this functionality not available and got below response. Currently, there are no cpdctl options available for adding groups to a project. We confirmed this with one of the developers, and at this time neither c...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Raise learning of large codebases to be a dominant requirement

As part of Linux kernel team, I have to deal with a very large codebase. Booting up with this code base is not trivial and takes a very long time. WCA team should consider the learning task a highly important feature. This can save thousands of ma...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Functionality already exists

ICP4D Should remove the connection reference for catalog assets/Deleted the referenced assets from catalog and project if the connection deleted from platform connection.

We are getting connection id details for catalog data asset in v3 API response but unable to find the connection details. Expectation: 1. ICP4D Should remove the connection reference for catalog assets if the connection deleted from platform conne...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data 2 Under review

Light Theme in CP4D

A light theme for cloud pak for data and be activated/deactivated easily in the settings. Taking into consideration the font colors and background themes and colors.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

Configurable HAP/PII Explainability & Exclusion Controls for OpenScale

The Watson OpenScale HAP and PII Metric Monitor currently lacks transparency and configurability, making it difficult for customers to effectively govern and fine tune content risk in real world use cases. When the HAP and PII metric triggers, the...

Ability to support SOAP API in Cloud Pak for Data - Data Virtualization to to data governance with IKC

Customer would like to connect to data sources using SOAP API for Cloud pak for Data. The end use case is to do data governance with IKC. At this time we support REST API, but there is no support for SOAP API. Customer is requesting SOAP support.
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Enable ORCHESTRATE Support in Redshift Connector

Currently, ORCHESTRATE-based job design logic works correctly with the Teradata connector, but fails with the Redshift connector. This creates a functional gap during Teradata → Redshift migrations and forces redesign of existing, production-stabl...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review