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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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Cloud Pak for Data

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Enhanced DQ rule configuration to allow selection of multiple tables/columns when binding to the same definition.

Enhanced DQ rule configuration to allow selection of multiple tables/columns when binding to the same definition. Today we need to bind every column one by one to the same definition variable (in case of 10 tables with 20 columns each, we need 200...
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Folder Level Export

We are commenced our development work with CP4D and trying to migrate the flows and pipelines to CP4D model environment manually. When look for option to export on folder wise there is no option to export. It only allowing us to have individual ob...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

Display Origin Dataset and Data Source Metadata for Virtualized Assets in CP4D Data Virtualization

Currently, when visualizing virtualized assets in CP4D Data Virtualization, the UI does not display metadata indicating the origin dataset or the data source used to create a specific virtualized asset. This lack of information makes it challengin...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

late-binding RunProcess parameters

We currently have a generic TI process that is able to execute asynchronous processes in series or parallel via tm1runti.exe. This approach allows for datatypes to be defined at runtime: tm1Runti -i ..\TM1ProcRun\tiprocess.config -connect SERVICE ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add ability to specify no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings

Currently, there is no easy way to add no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=environment-applying-cluster-http-proxy-settings It requires modifying a proxy-envs.json and...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Expire API Tokens at a set number of days

The Lockheed Martin security team would like to see a feature to set an API token expiration. Ideally users will be required to put an expiration date when generating a token. Another option we would like to have is the ability to generate a repor...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Able to copy data protection rule.

We would like to have the ability to copy data protection rule(s) within the UI.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

More details (metadata) inside virtualized table.

Add connection details to a virtualized asset. There is no easy way to see what connection or data source a virtualized asset is using.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted

Need ability for Schema level 'Deny' in WQ where filtering/masking applied

Want to prevent developers from accessing base virtualized objects in WQ, however when row level filtering is applied to those objects, the users with 'selectin' privs on the WQ schema can see/select the assets directly
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted