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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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Activity log should also show the users role in addition to their name

For audit purposes the activity log should show what was the role of the person when they published (or performed any other registered activity). It is possible they could have several roles which all would allow them to perform the said action, a...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Activity log should retain persons name (and ID) even after that persons has left the company

Activity log is used for audit purposes. At the moment if a user has left the company, then activity log will show "deactivated user" instead of the name. This breaks the audit trail. While improving this you should also add unique identifier for ...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Runtime Logging Export for DataStage

We understand that there currently a way to export runtime logs to an external service(ADLSg2) post the run of a DataStage flow/pipeline. However, we are looking for a way to export these logs during the run of a DataStage flow/pipeline.
about 23 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

UDF Governance on CPD

We understand that User-Defined Functions(UDF) in DataStage can be created by any user on the platform and attached to any project. We need some way to control who can create a UDF and more importantly limit who can attach UDFs to a project so tha...
about 23 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Support for persistent global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables in Db2 Data Gate for Db2 for z/OS to Db2 LUW topologies

In Db2 Data Gate topologies that replicate data from Db2 for z/OS to Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW), there is currently a functional limitation in which global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables are not supported, as documente...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Remote Development Integration with IBM Bob IDE

Executive Summary Request for official integration between IBM Bob IDE and IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to enable seamless remote development workflows. Currently, the Microsoft Remote-SSH extension blocks connectivity when using IBM Bob (a VS Co...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

Workload Misplacement Due to Inconsistent Node Affinity Control Impacts Platform Stability

All non-VPC workloads must support node affinity to ensure proper scheduling on specific nodes (e.g., standard vs GPU workers). In OCP environments running IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Software Hub, clusters often include both standard and GPU wor...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

User bulk sync cron job need to exclude hand-picked LDAP group(s)

This idea is an extension of CPDIDEAS-I-2297. Now IBM delivered upfront user bulk sync available via cron job. Organization has few enterprise group(s) using for all users read access and integrated in CP4D IDP configuration. Need to exclude those...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Name Resolution on CP4D level

We have a CP4D Deplyoment on Openshift and want to deliver data into an Azure Datalake Store using a private Endpoint. The communication shall go via an Express Route. Actually we don not yet have a Hybrid DNS (no DNS forwarding from OnPrem) so th...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Provide export to ppt as a option

Currently, PAW supports only the PDF export option. PPT export is supported only under the burst option. For example, if we create a summary dashboard that has no hierarchy, we cannot export it to PPT without using a workaround in Brusting. Provid...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics Submitted