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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,


Post your ideas

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 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

Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs execution information

We are entering a migration from DataStage 11.7 to DataStage Anywhere, control plane in IBM Cloud and Data Place in OCI/On Premise instances. Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs executio...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Under review

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

Software Hub support for Hashicorp Vault authentication using AppRole role id/secret id

Software Hub and Cloud Pak for Data services allow for vault and secrets using an external HashiCorp vault integration. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=2-managing-secrets-vaults#vaults__vaults-overview However, this configurat...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

MDE reporting capabilities in IKC

refer to case TS022643423
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 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...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Slider Control for Value Adjustment in Cube Viewer

Introduce a slider control in the Planning Analytics Workspace Cube Viewer to allow users to increase or decrease values interactively. Benefits: Faster what-if analysis More intuitive planning experience Reduced manual data entry Similar function...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add administrative controls to restrict DataStage and Spark visibility and usage when they are installed only as supporting services for IKC Data Quality.

Feature Request Add administrative controls to restrict DataStage and Spark visibility and usage when they are installed only as supporting services for IKC Data Quality. Problem Statement The installation of IKC Data Quality requires DataStage an...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

We need to establish a connection to Hive using a specific connection string that includes Kerberos authentication along with an additional option: server2.proxy.user.

An example of connection string: jdbc:hive2://AAA.sede.corp.com:10000/;ssl=true;sslTrustStore=/opt/informatica/kerberos/cm-auto-global_truststore.jks;trustStorePassword=SSSFFRRR;principal=hive/AAA.sede.corp.sanpaoloimi.com@SEDE.CORP.COM;hive.serve...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Audit log should action originating IP

Having originating IP in shipped Audit logs is considered a main functionality, this addresses the security gap where security team cannot identify where this request is initiated from? who is taking actions? is it someone who has access to take a...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted