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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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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...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Submitted

Add support for the multi-region access endpoints by extending the validations to accept the endpoints as this is required for Disaster Recovery

All the details of this request are found in https://github.ibm.com/lakehouse/tracker/issues/35080 AWS Multi Region (MRAP) required for Disaster Recovery for TSYS deployment of watsonx.data lakehouse. This is currently not supported by Software Hu...
5 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Support Request: Integration of cpd-cli Backup and Restore with Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM)

To meet a critical customer requirement, we are seeking support for the integration of the cpd-cli backup and restore functionality with the Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM), which is the customer’s homologated enterprise backup sol...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

CP4D (IKC + Manta OEM ) EDB postgreSQL connector support (MDI, MDE, Lineage)

Context: CP4D SW v>=5.2.1 with Manta OEM Customer (Intesa SanPaolo Italy) need to use a CP4D supported EDB postgreSQL connector to implement: - Meta Data Import - Meta Data Enrichment - Lineage (using MDI get lineage from "IKC") Customer use so...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Object Commenting - Reply To

I have demonstrated the Object Commenting feature to our key OpenPages users and they will start to use it by Q1 2026. They have observed though that it may not work too well for oversight users that may be commenting on many different objects to ...
4 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

dismissing the success toast automatically and/or per time parameter

Hello, for now, if there is a success message for the process or for saving a view or whatever, it is dismissed automatically after 5-10 seconds, maybe not everywhere, but in the most cases, so please check it and update that is has the same behav...
about 19 hours ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Pacemaker Cluster Monitoring – Need for Non-Root Utilities

We are in the process of implementing Pacemaker as a replacement for TSA. We would like to know if there are any built-in monitoring scripts or administrative views available to monitor and alert on resources such as CRM status. Specifically: Is t...
1 day ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Add time option for expensive trace

I am hearing customers are having issues or aren't wanting to execute expensive traces due to risk. How about adding a timer option to these types of traces so they will run and then automatically turn off to prevent issues and help adoption/confi...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Backup in V12 - allow to exclude files/folders

In Planning Analytics V12, when an administrator requests a backup, it includes all server files, as well as the contents of File Space (which can be browsed using File Explorer).However, this area can contain many files that are not required to b...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs execution information

We are entering a migration from DataStage 11.7 to DataStage Anywhere, control plane in IBM Cloud and Data Place in OCI/On Premise instances. Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs executio...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted