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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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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,

  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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Cloud Pak for Data

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Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition for Lineage scanner
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Adding "All users" collaborators when creating categories via csv

When in IKC we create a new root category using the ui or the apithe new category created has as collaborators in access control both the user who created the category with category role owner and the "All users" group that has viewer as category ...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Announcements banner does not overlay in UI

The banner currently (in 4.8.4) may sit on top of other important controls which users may not be aware of until the banner is dismissed. Rather than overlay the banner, we want the banner to displace the underlying content.
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Submitted

Master Data Explorer UI should provide entity count pre-search no matter the version

It gives any data consumer a glimpse into the entity count ahead, instead of the NaN count that we see today in 4.8.
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Master Data Management 0 Submitted

In Pipelines' DataStage nodes using Parameter Sets, add an option to use a paramfile

In some scenarios, the values of the DataStage parameters in a Parameter Set must be loaded from a file at runtime. This option is possible through DataStage paramfiles. However, when you're running DataStage jobs from Pipelines using a DataStage ...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Test and validate CP4D, IKC, and Manta functionality on OCP-Virtualitzation

Verizon is evaluating alternatives to their virtualization technology (VMWare) and OCP-V is the main option they are considering. They would like to make sure that Cloud Pak for Data and IBM Knowledge Catalog will work reliably and with the same o...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Custom property restriction by Categories that applies to Categories

There are multiple cases where we have a need to restrict Category Custom properties to be shown/not shown
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Custom property restrictions by Classifications

There are some cases where Classification will require some custom properties to be shown or not for the artifacts
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review