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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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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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Custom Enrichment Objective

Allow a custom enrichment objective (example from a notebook job or other process data asset) that allows the enrichment of custom attributes, which can either be pre-defined at design time or created dynamically at runtime during the enrichment p...
15 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Support of Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication for Salesforce Connection in IKC

The only currently supported option to connect IKC with Salesforce is by using username/password/token authentication which leverages Progress Salesforce JDBC Driver: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.2.x?topic=connectors-salesforce...
2 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Publish Impact Analysis for Dashbaords in Framework Manager and Data Modules

It would be great if the ability to recognize changes in the FM model or Data Modules via Analyze Publish Impact would also work for dashboards
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
5 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review

Notebook functionality within Orchestrate UI

Inspired by the release of Open Notebook, similar functionality within the Orchestrate environment would be powerful, especially if it can connect to WatsonX.ai-hosted models, and/or use the Orchestrate AI Gateway. The idea would be to create a pr...
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

In CP4D Data Virtualization add an easy way to refresh DB metadata

Customer has so many data sources, it would be a full time job to track what DB metadata changed. This is an enterprise customer and they have hundreds of not thousands of DB and the goal is to govern all data. For example, if a customer adds a co...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

DSN-Command -STA PROFILE GROUP

DSN-Profiles are managed using catalog tables DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES, but are not automatically activated upon insert / update. Instead a DSN-command -STA PROFILE must be executed. In a Db2 datasharing system, I can only have...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
28 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
22 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Having more parameters in API calls

It would be beneficial to be able to pass more parameters during an API call (server/execute, for example). Currently, we can use an overrides file to modify a DBalias or the path to an XF file, for instance, in the case of a data extraction reque...
3 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted