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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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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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Option to compare 2 executions of the same job in CP4D

Currently CP4D does provide an option to compare two executions of the same job. This feature will be used to analyze and compare the runtime and data volume between jobs runs which helps in better job monitoring. It is available in Datastage.
3 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

ICP4D Catalog Filtering Bug - Database Key / Key Spaces Not Functioning for Instance-Level Connections (Cassandra, DB2, etc.)

We have identified in the ICP4D catalog where filtering by "Database Key" and "Key Spaces" attributes for connection assets is not functioning as expected. This issue is specifically observed with instance-level databases such as Cassandra, DB2, a...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...

Ability to Control data mapping into Read Only fields (Fields that are read only due to calculations)

Currently, when a field was made read only due to calculation ( ie.. Using the field in the set operation of a calculation), When we use fastmap to load data into that field, it can't be overridden. This seems to be accurate from a perspective tha...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Enable reading NUMBER(1) columns in New Oracle CDC stage as INTEGER rather than BYTE

There is an existing CI in the old system for this; adding it to the Ideas portal for customer visibility. StreamSets documentation explains that we convert Oracle's Number type to SDC data types based on precision and scale, converting NUMBER fie...
10 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

DMC (Data Managment console) -- Multi factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to a resource such as an application, online account, or a VPN. MFA is a core component of a strong ide...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

New Control Hub role for extracting security audit data

Currently, these SCH API endpoints are available only to users in Organisation Administrator role: /security/rest/v1/organization/{orgId}/user/{userId}/listLogins , /security/rest/v1/metrics/dpmsupport.dp/actionAudits and /security/rest/v1/metrics...
7 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Ability to extend metadata for Users

We require the ability to add meta data to the user within OpenPages. Currently we are limited to First name, Last Name , email and Description. It would be valuable for us to be able to extend to items like Dept , Location etc. This would be data...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Federated AI for Secure Multi-Enterprise Collaboration

Why Is It Useful? In many industries, organizations hold valuable data that could collectively improve AI models—such as for fraud detection, disease diagnosis, or supply chain optimization—but data privacy, regulations, and competitive concerns p...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Clickstream Phase2 connector

Clickstream data is a record of a user's actions on a website or app, including clicks, page views, and interactions. Clickstream data can be used to analyze user behavior, customer data, and marketing campaigns. It is becoming more and more impor...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review