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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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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

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

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

wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Add Integration with ZEKE job scheduler

Currently ADDI only supports CA7 job scheduler integration. We use Zeke in our organization, can you please add Zeke integration to ADDI?
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 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...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Request to Simplify and Improve ADDI Visualization for New User Onboarding

We have received repeated feedback from our client regarding the current visualization of flow diagrams and reports within ADDI. They have expressed that many of the generated diagrams appear overly dense and difficult to interpret, especially for...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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

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