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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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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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Credentials Management in Projects, Insert-to-Code, and Project-lib

The Watson Studio Notebook user interface allows you to insert code snippets and credentials for data connections and data assets into your notebook code. The problem is that it puts usernames and passwords in cleartext into the code even if you h...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Watson Data Platform regions are completely isolated

Today Watson Data Platform is available in 2 regions: US South and United Kingdom. Each region has its own completely isolated stack including URLs: https://dataplatform.ibm.com and https://eu-gb.dataplatform.ibm.com While you can use the same CO...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Removing a data asset from a project or catalog does not delete it from COS

Whenever a data asset gets removed from either a Watson Studio Project or a Watson Knowledge Catalog the actual file is not removed from the underlying Cloud Object Storage bucket. The result is that there will be a lot of unreferenced files in Cl...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Watson Studio does not support IAM Access Groups / Resource Groups

Watson Studio has its own Admin Console which has its own "Access Control" section which can be used to assign privileges to users of Watson Studio / Watson Knowledge Catalog. Right now it only supports assigning Viewer or Admin privileges for Wat...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists

Add "issues" function to assets in the Knowledge Catalog

Allow users to add multiple "issues" to assets inside the Knowledge Catalog similar to how one would add issues to a file in a Git repo. This can be used to keep track of outstanding problems with an asset, document limitations, add requirements e...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

User Account details in Activity Log for Calculation Engine Functions

When a data field is updated via the calculation engine, a generic system account appears in the Activity log. It would be more useful for the user account of the user whose action triggers the calculation engine update to appear in the Activity L...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Capture CP4D UI Configuration and Deployment Responses - Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

I am working with an IBM team implementing CP4D across a large industrial enterprise for both operational and business use cases. I have advocated using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like RH Ansible to provide consistency and stability across...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

PLC Process not updating DB in a timely manner

We need same this functionality in v7.2 as well IBM development team has analyzed the PLC data loading issue where the recovery time is large. The solution is a large Project level effort that requires change in PLC behavior. The proposed enhancem...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Delivered

Build in Support for Teradata Temporal Tables

The current CDC product for a DB2 Linux implementation supports the use of DB2 Temporal Tables. We can replicate data from VSAM, DB2 zOS, and IMS to DB2 Linux Temporal Tables without any extra effort. Under a similar use case, we have instances wh...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Make Reference Data Set content searchable in global search

While Reference Data Set names can be searched in WKC Global Search, we need to be able to search the individual codes or attributes in the data set. EX: if one of the codes in in the Country Codes Reference Data Set is AUS, searching for AUS woul...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered