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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,

  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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More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - limit what assets can be used by user

There should be an option to restrict what kind of assets are available to any given user of the platform. Some users might only need to use SPSS streams, some only need to work with Jupyter Notebooks. It would be a good to have a role where we co...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - limit available data source options

The list of data sources in CP4D is very large and a lot of them are irrelevant to our users. There should be an option to limit what data source options are visible for users. And as an option it would allow restriction to apply so that users can...
about 23 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Pruning of recovery history file shouldn't block db2logw process

Hi IBM team, We have an environment that generated a lof of archived logs. We tried to perform DB Online backup every week but can't be completed due to various reason. The platform has parameter AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ set to ON with NUM_REC_RETENTION t...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Planning Analytics for Excel (PAFE): Hide PAFE Panel configurable via setting

In a use case scenario when PAFE is used for end users who are only consuming Tm1 sheets in excel the PAFE panel on the right hand side might be confusing and not necessary for the report consumption. It consumes space and must be disabled /hidden...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Bug Windows Toolkit Import Failure

There is a bug and a typo in the import toolkit function documented at this link (https://developer.watson-orchestrate.ibm.com/tools/toolkits/python_toolkits#importing-python-toolkits). Typo Please amend the add command ``` orchestrate toolkits ad...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Enable to export new workbook in viewer

In excel, when you export a view to a spreadsheet, it asks for if we want this on the current workbook or in a new workbook. However, if we did the same task in the viewer, it defaults to current workbook and new sheet. It doesn't give the same op...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

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 ...
9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

SSH certificate for DB2 Purescale user authentication

Our customer has a DB2 Purescale environment configred, that was configured by default with ssh keys per product specification. But per Customer requirements, they need to replace ssh keys with ssh certificates, but DB2 does not currently test or ...
10 days ago in Db2 / pureScale Submitted

Minimize the permissions required to access the API /v2/runtime_definitions?include=launch_configuration

The client's data scientists use that API to increase temporary storage capacity when they need to create (in certain specific cases) a custom runtime with a resource-intensive library (such as LangChain, for example) for the online models they de...
27 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio Submitted

Remote Development Integration with IBM Bob IDE

Executive Summary Request for official integration between IBM Bob IDE and IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to enable seamless remote development workflows. Currently, the Microsoft Remote-SSH extension blocks connectivity when using IBM Bob (a VS Co...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted