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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Enable add external databases in DMC bundled in CP4D

DMC console bundled with CP4D is capable monitor only DB2 instances deployed inside CP4D. It will be helpfull enable usersconnect also databases ouside of CP4D. For example in case you have deployed Cognos as part of CP4D but your databases are ex...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Data Management Console Submitted

Relationship explorer - allow "focus artifact" to be switched without having to recreate the whole canvas

Using relationship explorer I can start from e.g. a specific business term, and then include related terms, primary category etc. It takes a good amount of effort to click through, decide on the layout etc. Now afterwards, I would like to reproduc...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Enhancement For Chore Security to Allow Parameter Editing Without Process Modification

Current Feature: In IBM Planning Analytics, the existing administrative chore security roles typically offer two main permission levels with respect to chores: Read: Allows users to view chore details but not make any changes. None: No access to t...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Connecting watsonx.data to Oracle using tnsnamens.ora

Develop a possibility to connect watsonx.data to Oracle database using the tnsnames.ora instead of hostname and password.
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data Submitted

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Db2 Connect NULLID packages should be shipped in Db2 zos PTFs for BIND

This is a historic and on-going problem with the design of binding the NULLID packages on Db2 zOS from the Db2 Connect client installer. For high-security mainframe platforms, the Db2 Connect installer will not have authority to bind on a producti...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Support OpenSSL

Problem Statement Currently, GSKit is the only supported way of setting up TLS and cryptography in Db2 LUW. Because only IBM products rely on GSKit (as far as I know) it poses a higher barrier to entry when starting with Db2. While GSKit supports ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Not under consideration

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
9 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai Under review

Support Lineage Ingestion for Power BI Paginated Reports Using PBIDATASET Provider

Summary Currently, Power BI Paginated Reports (created in Report Builder) that use Azure-based shared datasets (PBIDATASET provider with pbiazure://api.powerbi.com) are successfully ingested by Manta, but no upstream lineage is generated. This res...
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web

Schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web Functionality to schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web interface. Additionally, there shoudl be a possiblitiy to receive a success or no success notification per mail.
4 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

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