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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Catalog users need to kick off a feedback workflow on a catalog item

There is a lack of a feedback workflow module in IKC and this impacts our ability to fully leverage the platform capabilities. Users of the data catalog can currently provide comments and rating regarding an asset, but this doesn't kick off a proc...
13 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Implement Oracle Connection Manager in default connector

Oracle Connection Manager is a widely implemented and popular enterprise feature that adds a proxy layer before Oracle databases, exposing services such as session multiplexing, access control, and protocol conversion. Cloud Pak for Data should al...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Connecting to Amazon Neptune

The customer has a graph database on Amazon Neptune and wants to establish a connection between CP4D and Neptune so they can create machine learning models using those databases (and leveraging the GPUs available on CP4D). As a workaround, we will...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Group ownership for imported metadata asset in catalog

When I use the "Import metadata from file" function to add a new asset or update an existing asset in an existing catalog, the Owner field is automatically set to my user account instead of an existing group. In enterprise environments, assets are...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Calculate Data Quality rule success rates based on the filtered/evaluated row count instead of the total underlying table row count.

A customer stores production data in a single large table and applies Data Quality rules only to specific subsets of that data by using SQL WHERE clauses. Currently, the Data Quality rule success rate appears to be calculated against the total row...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Introduce workflow-based approval for Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations when governance workflows are enabled.

Currently, governance workflows are triggered for glossary term creation through bulk import, requiring review and approval before changes become effective. However, Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations are executed immediately after conf...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Under review

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

CP4D portal‑style customization

Introduce a comprehensive, portal‑style customization framework accessible to platform administrators. The objective is to empower administrators to tailor the appearance, content, and organization of product pages within the CP4D web interface, w...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Needs more information

Discard tie-up tracking data for a CICS region that isn't running

IIDR/VSAM encountered issues with tie-up tracking introduced in CICS TS 6.1 where the CICS region would not log/flush tie-up records when a file was either closed intra-day or at normal region shutdown. In order to address the missing file close r...

Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted