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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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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.

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Cloud Pak for Data

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

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

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

CP4D - Apache HDFS Connector (Flow Connection) - Enhancement Request - keytab file - Parameterization

Hi Team, Please refer to the case #TS020958108 for complete details. if we design the flow connection from the scratch. We have to manually encode the keytab file which is present in the application path or a specific Linux path. This is a manuall...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 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

We need an enhancement regarding the exact drag&drop facility in transformer stages coming with CP4D datastage just the way it has been working in IIS Datastage.

It would be quite handy since we get to use it in legacy datastage.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Under review

Display minor version on the About page

At present the About page on the Software Hub UI only shows major versions for example 5.3 instead of 5.3.x . Business users cannot validate the version number
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Make the UI actually usable

The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 4 Under review

Enhance CP4D Workflow Approvals with API-Based Validation and External Approval Integrations

Idea Description It would be useful if IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Data Intelligence Platform workflows could be extended beyond standard manual approval steps to support configurable validation and integration points. For example, during an appr...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted