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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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Master Data Management

Hide merged members

We have many entities in our database that have a high volume of merged records that make it difficult to review tasks for remediation. The work around is to scroll up and down and remove records from the records attribute section one at a time or...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Proper reaction on browser events in RDM HUB

The customer has reported malfunctioning during management of referential data in IBM RDM HUB.
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

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.
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

Support and Certify Oracle SE on RDS for MDM SE

To certify the usage of Oracle Standard Edition on AWS RDS for MDM SE. Currently only MDM EE RDS is certified for usage with MDM
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Under review

Upgrade Log4j from 1.x to 2.x in IBM Infosphere MDM Platform.

Current IBM MDM versions 12.x and 11.x uses Log4j 1.2.6 version which is Outdated, officially end of life from Apache and it is no longer maintained. Hence recommendation is to upgrade the Log4j to its latest version 2.x in IBM MDM platform that w...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Need to separate Config Map from MDM, MDMUI, MQ images to take the benefits of MDM containerized application

We want to avoid fresh installation of MDM in future. Currently, MDM is in a containerized environment. To use the benefits of the same for example easy migration from one DC to other DC, let us know how compatible MDM is for such migration. If no...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Upgrade to currently supported version of Spring

Master Data Management ships with very old, unsupported versions of Spring Framework. Financial regulators are asking financial institutions to eliminate packages that are no longer supported.
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

Allow message brokers to auto-start on boot of Linux

Would like the MDM message brokers to be able to restart on their own after a reboot of a Linux server. Currently have to manually restart after reboot when patches are applied or server is shutdown. Recently switched from windows to Linux on AWS....
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

"Ghost" record downstream mitigation via CP4D filter

In our downstream systems, any ghost record that is generated in CP4D (currently being tackled by IBM engineering) is also part of the payloads sent out via ds jobs. This is causing technical issues in connected systems that are flattening the pay...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

Separating configuration from MDM/MDMUI/BPM containers

While migrating from one DC to another DC with IP change and other configuration changes, we need to go for fresh installation which should not be the case in containerized environment.
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted