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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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Request to have a Auto Loader of Platform Connections Page instead of "Show More" Option

On the Platform Connection Connections Page while you try to browse your existing connections after limited connections got listed we have a "Show More" Button which then updates/shows the next available connections, If we have more than 150 to 20...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Data Direct Driver for Presto DB Connectivity

Need Data Direct ODBC/JDBC Driver to connect to the Presto DB. Currently Presto DB Connectivity is certified using JDBC Driver with external Simba JDBC Presto Driver but not through internal/native Data Direct Drivers.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Support of Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication for Salesforce Connection in IKC

The only currently supported option to connect IKC with Salesforce is by using username/password/token authentication which leverages Progress Salesforce JDBC Driver: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.2.x?topic=connectors-salesforce...
10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Connectivity to Azure Table Storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Hi, I have a business requirement for us to be able to connect to Azure Table Storage to get the technical metadata from the tables which are stored there. Can you please make this connector become available in the next release. The connectors tha...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

location property exposed in bigquery connector

Is it possibile to consider exposing the location property in the bigquery connector such that a default location can be forced CP4D side? Executing jobs that use the statements SELECT FROM EXTERNAL TABLE while the bigquery database is located in ...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Display attributes under general information section for OpenIGC assets in Lineage view

We have created custom attributes in IGC to capture logic for lineage. But this attribute is not displayed when we view lineage for OpenIGC assets.An example would be the column level logic custom attribute that is applicable to column assets acro...
over 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

When we delete any platform connection, it should be auto deleted from projects also which have them connected

When we delete any platform connection, it should be auto deleted from projects also which have them connected. In absence of this, connections become stale at project level and user gets failure when they start using it next time.
10 months ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

JDBC connection with Kerberos not working

Unable to establish a JDBC connection from Windows using Kerberos authentication. Windows is supported and so is Kerberos so this should be working. IBM code doesn't take into account using API as ccache or MSLSA with credential guard. That is a c...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

POWER BI Assets import into IMAM in IGC

How to import POWER BI inside IMAM in IGC , I don't see any connector for it in Microsoft options. Is there a way to enable it or provide it for metadata work
over 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 3 Not under consideration

Need an option to create Postgresql connection without the database name.

Currently, CPD doesn't support Postgresql connection without the database name. Need an option to create Postgresql connection without the database name.
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 3