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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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Cloud Pak Configuration as Code

We have 3 Installations of Cloud Pak for Data (Stages - PROD, QA, BUILD) and would need the ability to configure the hole instance in a git repository. To Configure Cloud Pak for Data "ArgoCD" like as code in yaml form. Why do we need this: It is ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

Gitops pattern for DataStage NG/Cloud Pak for data installation / update

The customer has implemented a standard for containerized deployments (CD pipeline) towards Kubernetes/Openshift with the following stages: Git → ArgoCD → k8s/Openshift The current installation of Datastage based on CPD shall use the GitOps patter...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Under review

Add automated data drift detection to SQL Data Insights Pro that alerts users when underlying column/table data has shifted beyond a configurable threshold (e.g., 5–10%), signaling that the AI model needs retraining.

SQL DI Pro supports incremental retraining but has no built-in signal for when retraining is needed. As source data shifts — new segments, changing transaction patterns — embeddings can go stale with no warning to the user.Requesting a data drift ...
3 months ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 0 Submitted

Allow Db2 connection without password

When creating Db2 connection, for example Db2 for Z or Db2 for Datastage, the password field is mandatory. This prevents creation of connections that use certificates for authentication (because those don't need password). Even if a random passwor...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Adopt AWS Native Redshift Drivers Instead of IBM-Provided Redshift Drivers

Why is it useful? The AWS-provided native Redshift drivers are actively maintained and regularly updated by AWS to incorporate the latest performance optimizations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. In contrast, the IBM-provided Redshift driver...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Support for Multiple URLs for Cloud PAK for Data

Currently only one "main" URL is supported for Cloud PAK for data. We want to give an external partner access to cloud pak for Data, because this partner should develop for us. To be able to expose cloud pak for data to the web we have to do three...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Login prompt option is not visible when we are using OIDC/SAML provider

When logging in using an OIDC provider, username and password fields in the UI are not visible to facilitate login for technical users. Generally for the personal login, OIDC should just login without prompting username and password. But we need t...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Identity Provider Basic Settings

The settings of the identity providers are currently inconsistent. There should be basic settings the same for all identity providers: 1) Disable Checkbox: -> at the moment I have to delete a identity provider to turn it off. Only the openshift...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

The ability to create custom URLs that retrieves data from AIOps to be used in the custom cards

When creating new custom cards with a dynamic set of data you use the data_url attribute to provide the custom card with a URL that retrieves data from AIOps components (Alerts, Incedints, Resource management, etc..) and can't use external URL for...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Capability of assigning artifacts and related items to the catalog is missing from Watsonx Data Intelligence MCP

The watsonx-data-intelligence-mcp-server currently does not provide a tool to perform governance actions such as assigning business terms or other governance artifacts to catalog assets. This enhancement proposes adding MCP capabilities that enabl...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted