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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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Differentiate API Success Responses When No File Is Uploaded (Volume API / upFile Handling)

Problem Statement When calling the CP4D Volume API to upload a file, the endpoint returns the same generic “Success” response in two different cases: A file is actually uploaded, and No file is uploaded (e.g., due to a missing @ in curl or an auto...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Enhance Utility History Function to Support DSNUTILU and DSNUTILV

The current utility history function in Db2 for z/OS is incomplete since it does not record utilities that are executed via the Db2-supplied stored procedures DSNUTILU and DSNUTILV. This gap in functionality is especially troublesome for customers...
28 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Virtual Machine access without mounting path

The VM is mounted onto CP4D on /mnts In datastage 11.5 we locate dataset on the unix path /local/data In datastage CP4D, we now need to precise /mnts/local/data That is a major break in the migration from 11.5 to CP4D. We would like not to precise...
28 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Audit log should action originating IP

Having originating IP in shipped Audit logs is considered a main functionality, this addresses the security gap where security team cannot identify where this request is initiated from? who is taking actions? is it someone who has access to take a...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Enhance CATMAINT output to show what has been done.

Please enhance the CATMAINT output to actually show what has been done. Currently when we execute CATMAINT to change the catalog level, the following output is produced: DSNU000I 083 15:07:58.39 DSNUGUTC - OUTPUT START FOR UTILITY, UTILID = RELODC...
28 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Preserve Page State in Child Association Grid

When users navigate within a child association grid that contains multiple pages, the system does not retain the current page state after opening and editing a record. Instead, it automatically resets the grid view back to Page 1, requiring users ...
28 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Functionality already exists

Audit log for subscription-level user management actions

Problem Statement From an audit and control perspective: -There is no traceability of who performed user management actions and when -Organizations cannot validate segregation of duties (SoD)/Role change or detect unauthorized privilege escalation...
29 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Time representation- Group By Query

Local report download . Timestamp attributes does not get downloaded with local timestamp. It should be downloaded with local time.For example when executing a group by query for the month of June, the output table in the UI displays the SP_System...
29 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical Submitted

Capability for dynamic default selection in the single selector tile

We are having the Periods dimension used in the single selector tile in the workbook within Planning Analytics Workspace. The selector shows the list of the months within the current year. We have a business requirement that whenever the user open...
29 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics Submitted

Hate, Abuse & Profanity (HAP): Arabic language support

As part of our content safety and governance framework, we require the Text Detection API to be configured for Arabic language support. Specifically, we need the following detector enabled for Arabic — mirroring what is already available for Engli...
29 days ago in watsonx.governance Under review