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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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Add a section that displays all drafts, regardless of the type of artifact.

The customer is requesting this functionality, which was included in previous versions of CP4 Data.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review

DEBUG Level logging support across all Cloud Pak for Data services

At this time we have not standardized the implementation of DEBUG level logging for all CP4D services. Some services support enabling DEBUG level logging but that needs to be done manually through the deployment, ie. "oc edit deployment <deploy...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Future consideration

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Smart Split Data Modeling

When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add ability to view schema when creating or configuring a Connection

When developing a pipeline, obviously we have the Preview feature, which, although really is intended to allow the developer to see sample records from the data source, also allows them to see the schema. However, when creating or configuring a Co...
16 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

OIDC login redirect should be handled rather than producing HTTP 404 errors

When we use SSO to login with Cloud Pak for Data (software on openshift), we notice that the initial login is very often failing with "404 File not found". If we then browse the hostname again, the CPD UI will then load. The issue stems from the f...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Ingest json files from cloud object storage

In the current version of the product is not possible to ingest json files from the bucket itself, it has to be from an external table and being a bucket of thousands and thousands of files makes this option unfeasible, we need to be able to inges...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.data 0 Delivered
144 VOTE

Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

IDAA Admin Services : Unable to view Accelerator in separate tabs

In UMS, when we explore objects and bring up Accelerators list, we are able to view only one Accelerator at a time. when we right click on another accelerator and open in new tab, it does not work. In data studio we can open multiple Accelerators ...
about 2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review