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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:


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,


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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

Provide MDE Governance Change Summary Report for Pre-Publish Review

Provide a UI-based report that compares metadata before and after an MDE run and summarizes all changes made to assets and columns. The report should include counts of governance and data quality attributes that were assigned, modified, suggested,...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Improve the resilience, scalability, observability, and self-recovery of the IKC internal messaging layer, including reassessment of RabbitMQ for high-volume Metadata Enrichment workloads.

IBM Knowledge Catalog uses RabbitMQ as part of its internal asynchronous processing architecture. In large Metadata Enrichment environments, messaging availability and consumption rates can become critical dependencies for the overall stability of...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 Under review

exportable connections and secrets

Make platform connections and secrets linked with their credentials exportable as related items. Make these structures equally importable across different clusters for promotions, building DR environments, etc.
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Unifying Audit logs

Reference to Case number TS021471996 Audit logs should contain display name instead of Project/Catalog/Asset internal ID (Same with roles and users added to projects or catalogs) which is non relevant to SOC team while inspecting incoming logs in ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Permit resizing individual columns (especially in the New Transformer)

In general, all stages that offer editing the input and output columns have a difficulty of displaying the full information and there seems to be no way to resize the display of individual columns. The default space seems even more narrow than nec...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Under review

Building Reliable flows with Orchestration Pipelines

When working with data pipelines , failures can occur at multiple stages due to network disruptions, database outages, or incorrect transformations. Enterprise environments requires reliability, since some pipelines can be used to mission-critical...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data 1 Functionality already exists

Cloud Pak for Data Rolling Openshift Updates

We want to be able to run rolling openshift updates below the Cloud Pak for Data Platform without downtime. We have a prod cluster with 3 nodes on three machines, so the platform should be 24x7 available. Our working hours are 8:00 to 16:00, but t...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

MDE reporting capabilities in IKC

refer to case TS022643423
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Temporary Session Token for Generic S3 Connection

Customers who are using S3 Buckets behind their firewall and using their own storage still require similar Temporary Credentials as the Amazon S3 connector. This would include the following Credential fields: accessKeyId: "YOUR_TEMP_ACCESS_KEY", s...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 1 Submitted