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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,

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  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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Allow IKC with Data Virtualization and data protection rules in bulk

From the IKC GUI, the customer is requesting the ability to do IKC with data virtualization and allow to configure data protection rules in bulk. This is to enhance security (less errors) and similar speed up deployment of many data protection rul...
17 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

Download option for the analyze section

I suggest adding an option to download the data (all conversations, requests, ...) as an XLSX data as we need to process this data in our own software. This is very frustrating that you don't have this option. Also, the UI is really a mess with ma...
17 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Bulk configure ODBC data sources and credentials for jobs

Currently, when creating a job, the ODBC data sources and credentials in the "ODBC Data Source" field must be configured individually, which is time-consuming. We would like the ability to select multiple data sources and configure them in bulk (o...
17 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Submitted

Support cluster-wide HTTP Proxy configuration in IBM StreamSets Cartridge.

Currently the IBM StreamSets cartridge for Cloud Pak for Data does not support cluster-wide HTTP proxy configuration. Aside from the fact that the IBM StreamSets software does not support the proxy configuration in and of itself, this also causes ...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 1 Under review

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

watsonx.data able to use the Ozone S3 as Object Storage

The client want to adopt the Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera on watsonx.data to also store data synced from Data Gate for watsonx so that the two platforms can coexist sharing this common layer without requires deploy a new Object Storage clas...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 2

Alerts/Notifications

Administrators and users should be able to set alerts/notifications that are based on data changes. They s/b able to do this from within the reporting and dashboarding UI's as business requirements demand. You are allowed to set conditional format...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

CP4D Audit: Ability to trace activities related to assets’ execution for the Watson Studio service (and the CP4D Platform)

CP4D Audit: Ability to trace activities related to assets’ execution for the Watson Studio service (and the CP4D Platform) Client would like to be able to trace the activities related to the execution of an asset. With reference to the Watson Stud...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review