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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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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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Support CRON expressions for DataStage job schedules in the UI

We schedule our DataStage ETL jobs from the UI. The scheduler only offers minutely, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly, and each field accepts a single value. Common patterns cannot be defined: every N hours (for example every 8 hours) several ...

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...
14 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 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...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Under review

Support Cloudera commercial JDBC driver (HiveJDBC42.jar) for Hive stages

Currently SDC's Hive stages only recognize Kerberos authentication via principal= in the JDBC URL. Customers using Cloudera's commercial JDBC driver (HiveJDBC42.jar / com.cloudera.hive.jdbc.HS2Driver) with AuthMech=1 are not recognized as Kerberos...
7 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Restrict API User Administration to only Authorized admin Groups

In Control Hub, API user creation, modification, or deletion generates audit logs that are forwarded to the security team, resulting in a high volume of security events. To reduce these unnecessary event triggers, like to restrict API user managem...
26 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

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

Support of OpenText as Source in UDI

The customer is interested in adopting UDI but requires OpenText as data source, which is currently unsupported. This limitation prevents integration of critical enterprise content and blocks broader adoption.

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