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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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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.

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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 ...
about 14 hours 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...
about 14 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted

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 ...
about 14 hours 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...
about 17 hours 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.
about 17 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server Submitted

Support user-defined calculations in Universal Reports

User-defined calculations are a frequently used option when working with Planning Analytics. In Perspectives, the use of subsets made it very easy to create your own consolidations. With PAfE, there is the DefineCalc function in conjunction with D...
about 20 hours ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

Officially integrate the "Sample to fire trigger using API Key" accelerator into the Cognos Analytics product

We're going to switch our SSO authentication method from "LDAP for Active Directory" to OpenID Connect. We're launching some burst batches using the trigger.sh script provided in the Cognos installation. This script requires a username and passwor...
about 23 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config Submitted

Unified Lineage Manta connectors don't support HTTP Proxy

Unified Lineage Manta connectors don't support HTTP Proxy while Manta OEM supported. That is blocking the move from one solution to another which seems to be the strategy of IBM.
about 23 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Speed up and align view exports

Dear development team, we observed for big views that the exports via in-built solutions such like - PAW "Import/Export"-->"Export data" - "Export"-button in PAW Cube-viewer - "Export"-button in UI API Cube-viewer are by far(!) slower than expo...
about 23 hours ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Support Multi-AZ Configuration

We would like you to support a Multi-AZ configuration. Since OpenShift supports operation in a Multi-AZ setup, we believe that watsonx.governance, which runs on OpenShift, should also support Multi-AZ deployment. In particular, the guardrail funct...
1 day ago in watsonx.governance Submitted