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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.

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Runtime Logging Export for DataStage

Administrators, operations teams, and DataStage users need the ability to export DataStage runtime logs to an external storage service, such as ADLS Gen2, while a DataStage flow or pipeline is actively running. Currently, there is a way to export ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

UDF Governance on CPD

Administrators need enhanced governance and role-based access control for User-Defined Functions, UDFs, in DataStage within watsonx.data integration on Cloud Pak for Data, CPD. Currently, UDFs in DataStage can be created by any user on the platfor...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

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 2 months 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

Support to specify SAP client for OData Connection

SAP systems could contain different SAP clients. At the moment it's not possible to choose/specify a SAP client when using Odata Connector. It will always connect to the default client. So it's not possible to extract data from other SAP clients.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Token exchange - Use token created in customer's OIDC enterprise IdP to login in CP4D

Context: Customer is building in .NET their own Data Marketplace based on IBM CP4D (IKC+DV). One of the principal users will be Healthcare, that wants to publish and share data between users in a secure platform. Then, because of security requirem...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Under review

Deleting the data Flows after rule execution

This idea is derived from CPDIDEAS-I-2537 specific for deleting the data flows with rule execution (as per IBM request). IBM handling the rules execution flows deletion up to some extend. But still not a full proof solution. #Flows not deleting fo...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Default value for a field gets removed after each upgrade.

Is it possible to implement a mechanism in the upgrade process that compares the target environment’s configuration with the upgrade package to identify any deviations from the out-of-the-box configuration? If differences are detected, the package...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 0 Submitted

Remove Cluster Admin Role from the installation/upgrade/runtime of shared cluster components (License Manager, Certificate Manager)

In banking environments, roles are clearly segregated between teams (e.g., Infrastructure team, Application team). For day-to-day operations and application upgrades, the Application team should not require Cluster Admin privileges, as the respons...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release

Dumping DB/schema tables into parquet files

Parquet files are becoming a standard for storing tables as flat files and moving data between different systems. Netezza currently supports parquet files as external tables but only using minIO. Would be great if there would be a way to offload w...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted