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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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Sharepoint/Teams/OneDrive Connector for SPSS Statistics Shared Files

Shared SPSS files append local user file path when accessing and saving via Windows File Explorer. This causes instability when another user then tries to go access and modify the file and so on. There needs to be a Cloud connector for customer wh...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under 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

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

Update the permission of file and folder created as part of volume connector

While using Volume connector, the folders/files getting created with it were with 750 and 644 permission respectively. Expectation is to have the files or folder created with 664 and 775 respectively. Reference case:TS019729960
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Software Hub support for Hashicorp Vault authentication using AppRole role id/secret id

Software Hub and Cloud Pak for Data services allow for vault and secrets using an external HashiCorp vault integration. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=2-managing-secrets-vaults#vaults__vaults-overview However, this configurat...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

enhance filter for DB object to import into IKC

After executing metadata import from DB2 I need to review list or imported obects and remove some of them which wouldn't likely be the subject of further metadata enrichment work. Using the interface I cannot find a way to isolate one type from an...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Vault Kv1 Support

Currently we are trying to utilize our existing vault infrastructure but we are running into an issue where kv1 is not supported. Anyway to include this soon by chance?
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted