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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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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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Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enable Automatic Onboarding of LDAP Users to IKC Without Initial Login

Currently, users from enterprise LDAP are successfully auto-propagated to the Access Control section in IBM Software Hub through their assigned Active Directory (AD) groups. However, these users do not appear in IKC until they log in for the first...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Implement a project search feature that allows users to filter and search for projects based on connection type (e.g., DB2).

Implement a project search feature that allows users to filter and search for projects based on connection type (e.g., DB2). This enhancement would enable users to easily find all projects associated with a specific connection type, improving effi...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Prevent bulk csv load from creating drafts in case a draft already exists

At the moment "according to design" a user can bulk load CSV which automatically creates drafts, even though a draft would already exist. Such behaviour (having duplicate drafts) is not possible when editing in the UI, but for mysterious reasons t...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

CP4D - Reference Data Sets - Column Descriptions and Default Character Length

DRAFT, enhance it based on the details at: https://ibm-analytics.slack.com/archives/CMBN9DB9C/p1758281856675439 The business would like to add a “Description” value and have the “Default character length” value displayed for the column names “Code...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Under review

Datastage Migration Service Should Honor CP4D Folder Structures

In the context of a CP4D Datastage Project with Folders enabled... When a migration is performed (in my case from cpdctl) using an ISX file containing Legacy Datastage Assets (e.g. 11.3) that also exist in the CP4D project, the migration service b...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

transformation rules outside of DataStage

We now have transformation rules outside of DataStage, so if there's a change, we do not need a DataStage engineer to change this transformation rule.
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Multiple parallel session are running for Datastage cloudpak flows/pipelines

Hi Team, We see that our cloudpak datastage flows/pipelines can be triggered/run parallelly with multiple session at same time. That should not be the case. If one session is already running, another parallel session can not be triggered. This may...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

The incremental Import option is not available for GCP BigQuery connection for MDI

We need incremental import option for GCP Big Query connection for MDI's.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D

We would like to capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D. This will provide visibility on what customer transactions are running on the platform. The key fields that we are interested in are as follow...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration