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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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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

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

DQ Rule execution history statistics cannot export via export-import utility

Noticed that the export-import utility does not have DQ rules run history export option. This will be useful for keeping the DQ rules backup for any disaster recovery. It would be nice if IBM can add option to amend the exported project files with...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Enable Data Virtualization "Run SQL" query UI to be a standalone UI for clients/tenants as a product.

Enable Data Virtualization "Run SQL" query UI to be a standalone UI for clients/tenants as a product. We need to be able to offer a SQL Editor UI as an individual product which can be directly accessible and isolated for our clients/tenants which ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...

Backup and restore IBM Cloud Pak with Kasten

Hello, We are using Kasten (VEEAM) to backup and restore all of our apps on Openshift and we would like to use it also for IBM Cloud Pak (for data, for automation, for integration, ...). Regards.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release