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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Basic data lineage reports and support with lineage tooling

As a user of CDC, I want to be able to answer basic questions about the data lineage of my subscriptions easily and in an automated way. Today, if an internal customer asks where my data is going this is a manual effort and takes time to solve. Th...
3 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Enable Collect Statistics for Subscriptions by Default

If performance statistics are not enabled for a subscription, there is no way to troubleshoot or debug issues in the future. As a user of CDC, I want to avoid having performance statistics turned on by default would help with troubleshooting. I am...
4 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Retry Logic

Why it is usufull , Pipelines self-heal, Data keeps flowing consistent and Operational noise is reduced. Retry only transient failures Timeouts Network issues Temporary locks Retryable HTTP status codes (e.g., 408, 429, 5xx) Limit retries Prevent ...
4 days ago in StreamSets Submitted

Add ability to test final rules in the test sandbox

Final rules could be more readily and easily verified by allowing them to be tested through the test sandbox.
4 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Future consideration

Copy where clause from an Adhoc to a Goup by query and vice versaThe

Having the ability to copy the where clause from one query to another would make writing queries much more streamlined.
4 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Not under consideration

Enhancement Proposal: SAML and OpenID Connect Integration for IIDR Access Server

This proposal suggests an enhancement to the IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Access Server to support modern authentication and authorization mechanisms using SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).Currently, authentication mechanisms may rely ...
4 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Have the select all option which will select all the value in the multi-select field

Have the select all option which will select all the value in the multi-select field where is lets say we have country field which has 200 value and user want to select 190 values than user have to go select each and every value. can we bring an o...
4 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

Make CPD vault secret sharing dynamic when using a group

On Cloud-Pak-for-Data (CPD), an existing internal vault's secret is shared with other CPD users via a group (e.g. CPD shadow group that is linked to an OIDC IDP group) When a new user is added to this group (on the IDP), the vault secret is still ...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Dumping DB/schema tables into parquet files

Parquet files are becoming a standard for storing tables as flat files and moving data between different systems. Netezza currently supports parquet files as external tables but only using minIO. Would be great if there would be a way to offload w...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server Submitted

HISTDB logging access to views

In HISTDB on Netezza we are logging access to tables but not access to views. Would be great if at least access to the main view without any referenced views would be logged.
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server Submitted