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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Support for CSV Format with Import/Export of(category/items) in IBM Product Master

Currently, IBM Product Master only supports Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) format for data import and export operations across items and hierarchies. This creates limitations for organizations that rely on alternative formats or automated data exchanges....
5 months ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios to support Enterprise Customers' requirements for failover/BC/DR
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

GRID GUI to display the package information that are currently installed

There's a visibility gap in GUI when it comes to showing package-level details for installed applications, which is causing friction for both our team and the application teams who rely on that data. Current Workflow Summary Issue: GUI does not ...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 5 Under review

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Connector for SAP Datasphere

Idea based on feedback from customer using CPDaaS when working for SAP OData Connector. Customer wants to connect to SAP Datasphere. Customer sees great potential in linking CPD aaS to SAP Datasphere. One of the reaon for the idea/request of the c...
5 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

BIFs ENRYPT_DATAKEY and DECRYPT_DATAKEY* should be able to check with user ID of ACEE

The BIFs ENRYPT_DATAKEY and DECRYPT_DATAKEY* are very useful for encrypting and decrypting data (e.g., passwords) that are to be stored in DB2 tables. The programmer does not have to worry about the keys used, as they are stored in the ICSF. When ...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Automatically perform actions when synchronisation is broken on DataGate

In Data Gate, every time someone executes a utility not supported by the product (such as a LOAD without LOG or a schema change in the table) the synchronisation is broken.In these cases, we have to redo an initial load. In other products such as ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Synchronized Fields option when using shared field group in different objects

When you use a field group in multiple objects it would be great to have the option at the field level to check synchronized field. This would allow the data in the field of one object to be synchronized the the same field in a different object wh...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Private Endpoint Support for Data Stage in IBM Cloud

Submitted on behalf of federico_accetta@it.ibm.com -- please contact him directly A significant number of customer engagements involve hybrid connectivity between IBM Cloud and on-premises environments. However, many core data platform services—sp...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Deployment space creation via API that allows pending user owner

Banco do Brasil (BdB) is fully automating the process of building an MLOps pipeline that uses CP4DaaS as one of theirwork environments. Such a pipeline relies on administrative functionalities and execution triggers that are directlylinked to thei...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Under review