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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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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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Activity log should also show the users role in addition to their name

For audit purposes the activity log should show what was the role of the person when they published (or performed any other registered activity). It is possible they could have several roles which all would allow them to perform the said action, a...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Activity log should retain persons name (and ID) even after that persons has left the company

Activity log is used for audit purposes. At the moment if a user has left the company, then activity log will show "deactivated user" instead of the name. This breaks the audit trail. While improving this you should also add unique identifier for ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Deploy Planning Analytics platform without including some images

At Citi, we are not deploying Watsonx or agentic capabilities, as these technologies are not currently approved for use within IBM Planning Analytics. We would like the option to deploy the Planning Analytics platform without including these image...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Provide export to ppt as a option

Currently, PAW supports only the PDF export option. PPT export is supported only under the burst option. For example, if we create a summary dashboard that has no hierarchy, we cannot export it to PPT without using a workaround in Brusting. Provid...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Folder-Level Access Control in CP4D Volumes

Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D), access control for data stored in persistent volumes (PVs/PVCs) can only be managed at the volume level. This means that any user with access to the volume can view and modify all folders and files with...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Delegated project access management for platform user administrators

Allow a user who holds the platform "Manage users" permission (i.e. can create users, assign them to user groups, and assign platform roles) to also manage collaborator access on existing projects — adding/removing project collaborators and assign...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Allow override of built-in BRNAME and BRADDR standardization rules

We are migrating standardization rules from IBM InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) to Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) DataStage NextGen. During the migration, our customized Brazilian standardization rules BRNAME and BRADDR cannot be imported because C...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

UI doesn't show what assets and what catalog a publish job worked with

defect #: TS022691516 how does one find in UI what assets and what catalog did a publish job publish assets to.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Implement EDB postgres as an external database for Openscale

As reported in the documentation, only Db2 is supported for databases external to CP4D.To offer an alternative for clients unable to manage Db2 properly, it would be ideal to also offer Postgres EDB as an external database: currently, however, it ...

DEBUG Level logging support across all Cloud Pak for Data services

At this time we have not standardized the implementation of DEBUG level logging for all CP4D services. Some services support enabling DEBUG level logging but that needs to be done manually through the deployment, ie. "oc edit deployment <deploy...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Future consideration