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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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Need to see virtualized objects in relationship explorer for business term or catalog

We create virtualized tables and develop views based on business requirements. When a virtualized asset is added to the related content of a business term through the enrichment process and published to the catalog, we want to ensure that these vi...
about 4 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Federated AI for Secure Multi-Enterprise Collaboration

Why Is It Useful? In many industries, organizations hold valuable data that could collectively improve AI models—such as for fraud detection, disease diagnosis, or supply chain optimization—but data privacy, regulations, and competitive concerns p...
about 13 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

implement "select all" for Assets list in a IKC

Similarly to an option to select all assets imported by metadata import job into a catalog, add the same functionallity when working with IKC directly using UI. This will allow to do bulk delete for example. Catalog easily has 10s or 100s thousand...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

We need an enhancement regarding the exact drag&drop facility in transformer stages coming with CP4D datastage just the way it has been working in IIS Datastage.

It would be quite handy since we get to use it in legacy datastage.
30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Submitted

Enable Automatic Onboarding of LDAP Users to IKC Without Initial Login

Currently, users from enterprise LDAP are successfully auto-propagated to the Access Control section in IBM Software Hub through their assigned Active Directory (AD) groups. However, these users do not appear in IKC until they log in for the first...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Token exchange - Use token created in customer's OIDC enterprise IdP to login in CP4D

Context: Customer is building in .NET their own Data Marketplace based on IBM CP4D (IKC+DV). One of the principal users will be Healthcare, that wants to publish and share data between users in a secure platform. Then, because of security requirem...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Submitted

CP4D - Restrict multiple users simultaneously opening the same flow to make changes - Addition of version name to the Dialog box.

This is in continuation of case #TS015396049. As of today, When two users open the same flow and one user change the flowed and saved it. There is a popup which gets displayed with the second user on who changed it and time as well. in addition to...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Improvements to Relationship Explorer

The current Relationship Explorer default view is messy. It can be improved by: 1. the lines between the nodes can ne customised. lines should also not cross under nodes as it is difficult to trace. 2. have restricted scopes 3. able to perform aut...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted