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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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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...
10 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

PAW Application Assets Refresh When Opened

In a PAW Application with at least 2 assets, I can open an asset and it gets the latest data the first time; however, if I go to another asset and amend something that affects data in the first asset, and then go back to the first asset then it re...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Request for Provision of APIs for Automated Control of Resource Limits at Project Level in Cloud Pak for Data (on Prem) Monitoring

In IBM Cloud Pak for Data (on Prem), under Monitoring → Status summary → Projects → Set quotas, it is currently possible to manually define and enforce resource limits via the UI—such as vCPU and memory thresholds—at project level. To enable autom...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

execute unload on store procedures

it would be wonderful, to be able to execute unload directly on store procedures, and not have to do an system call, so it we a native unload of data
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

Bidirectional SharePoint Connector for DataStage in IBM Cloud Pak for Data

This proposal aims to develop a native bidirectional connector between Microsoft SharePoint and DataStage within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.The connector should allow users to extract and send data (read and write operations) from and to SharePoint li...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improvement of Report Functionality in PAFE for Enhanced Data Analysis and User Productivity

Currently, users face limitations in their report, which hampers productivity and the ability to analyze data effectively. Issue is When a value is entered in "As Value Mode" and the formula is overwritten, the formula will not reappear in that re...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

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...
12 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...
13 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...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Light Theme in CP4D

A light theme for cloud pak for data and be activated/deactivated easily in the settings. Taking into consideration the font colors and background themes and colors.
25 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted