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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.

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More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - additional restriction for project admins to do rights management in the project

We would like to restrict users ability to manage access rights in their own projects even if they created their project and they are the administrator in the project. For some users it would be OK for them to have the ability manage the rights of...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - allow/forbid custom runtime environment creation

We would like to have role based configuration where we could restrict/allow users to create custom runtime environments. Since CP4D licensing is based on CPU cores compute usage and users very often don't understand optimizations and if they star...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - limit what runtime templates are available

Related to the request about asset type usage: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ICPD-I-541 In this request we would also like the ability to restrict the runtime environments available to users based on roles as well.
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - limit what assets can be used by user

There should be an option to restrict what kind of assets are available to any given user of the platform. Some users might only need to use SPSS streams, some only need to work with Jupyter Notebooks. It would be a good to have a role where we co...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

More granular roles configurations in CP4D - projects - limit available data source options

The list of data sources in CP4D is very large and a lot of them are irrelevant to our users. There should be an option to limit what data source options are visible for users. And as an option it would allow restriction to apply so that users can...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Pruning of recovery history file shouldn't block db2logw process

Hi IBM team, We have an environment that generated a lof of archived logs. We tried to perform DB Online backup every week but can't be completed due to various reason. The platform has parameter AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ set to ON with NUM_REC_RETENTION t...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Planning Analytics for Excel (PAFE): Hide PAFE Panel configurable via setting

In a use case scenario when PAFE is used for end users who are only consuming Tm1 sheets in excel the PAFE panel on the right hand side might be confusing and not necessary for the report consumption. It consumes space and must be disabled /hidden...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Bug Windows Toolkit Import Failure

There is a bug and a typo in the import toolkit function documented at this link (https://developer.watson-orchestrate.ibm.com/tools/toolkits/python_toolkits#importing-python-toolkits). Typo Please amend the add command ``` orchestrate toolkits ad...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Enable to export new workbook in viewer

In excel, when you export a view to a spreadsheet, it asks for if we want this on the current workbook or in a new workbook. However, if we did the same task in the viewer, it defaults to current workbook and new sheet. It doesn't give the same op...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enhancement Proposal: SAML and OpenID Connect Integration for IIDR Access Server

This proposal suggests an enhancement to the IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Access Server to support modern authentication and authorization mechanisms using SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).Currently, authentication mechanisms may rely ...
9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted