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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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.

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Cloud Pak for Data

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Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...

To support any other WIF connection properties with Manta needs product enhancement.

MDI and MDE jobs using Google BigQuery and WIF are working fine. The existing WIF connections are not working with Manta Data Lineage MDI jobs. Currently, Manta only supports the "Client email", "Private key" and "Oauth2 Endpoint URI" with WIF con...
12 minutes ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios to support Enterprise Customers' requirements for failover/BC/DR
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Ability to setup Maintenance Mode to prevent users from login and executing new job's.

Hi Team, As Admin team has the responsibility of maintaining CPD environment for datastage, we wanted check if we can enable a capability to add a Maintenance Mode to prevent users from logging and initiate any of the new job's. We need this capab...
about 21 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Minor edits should not trigger a workflow

Any workflow adds work. Not all modifications are of equal importance, some the user should be able to do alone. It would be good to be able to define attributes which can be considered of minor importance and those would be just auto-published. O...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

CP4D - Cloudera Impala Connector - Truststore/SSL

In Legacy DataStage, we use connect to Hive/Impala using a cacerts which is defined that sever level. we just pass the location of the cacerts and datastage is intelligent enough to use that cacerts and establish the connectivity. But in CP4D we d...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Need HTTP proxy support on the Google connectors.

Ford intends to switch authentication method to -> Workload Identity Federation (WIF) with token URL. Our CP4D runs behind a firewall that prevents internet access, so the communication has to be done via Proxy and currently has a HTTP proxy,...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

IKC usability

It is requested not to display empty ‘custom new property’ in the overview of a catalog customised object (i.e. Assets or Governance Artifact: custom assset, Report, BT, Category etc) Imagine to have the need to manage "objects" that have a lot of...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted