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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Simplify Security Logins for Drive Explorer

Currently in Drive Explorer you have to login to the remote file store. Coming soon, you'll also have to log into the local file store. From a security perspective, this makes sense. However, it is tedious for administrators especially when there ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

remove restriction "rwx" for others from "/tmp" or location configured by DB2TMPDIR variable

To extra secure the server where DB2 software is installed it is preferred to create directories which don't have write and executable rights for others. On this way it prevents an ordinary user to create scripts on its own and execute them. In th...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Manage existing FT accounts and create new ones in PAA Administration

IBM changed all existing FTPS/SFTP accounts connection to ft-eu.planning-analytics.cloud.ibm.com After the change, customers are able to create new FT accounts and apply ACLs to them, that way you can limit required access to desired folders only....
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Security permission set at group level for template -> objects created -> when pipeline/job template/job Whenever a pipeline/job template/job created in the StreamSets, we can have ACL to allow/restrict others to work on it. But, in case of job template, others cannot see the job instances created on top of it even they are in ACL. So, only owner can see what is happening while processing a file. StreamSets team said, it is a bug on their end. When can we expect this issue fix as only the person who created the template can see the logs.

(Streamsets Group permission set on template newly created objects) Whenever a pipeline/job template/job created in the StreamSets, we can have ACL to allow/restrict others to work on it. But, in case of job template, others cannot see the job ins...
5 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

AD - New feature to broadcast message to analyze client users.

Currently AD has no facility to broadcast notification alert to user's community, instead we usually send information to application discovery users via email distributions. This idea is about introducing new feature to notify maintenance alerts w...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas 0 Under review

Discovery | Requirement to make a Field Non-Searchable + Returned as part of any Search Query

We are currently performing a Migration activity for Verizon (WEX to Discovery). In Watson Explorer, we have a concept of "weights" for fields. For example, a weight of (-1) makes a particular field Non-Searchable. Further, even if a field is "Non...
5 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Under review

Introduction of SSO passthought of ACL lists. For example, SSO onto CP4D on Azure will create automatic data connections down onto the Azure FS in line with user Azure RBAC, ACL's and CP4D RBAC. This is already a key feature of Databricks and DataIQ.

Allows users to access their files in CP4D without the need to hand-crank connectuon strings.
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Access Control Levels

While building solutions for enterprise customers, I need the ability to limit certain documents or portions of documents to end-users. I would like Discovery to get the ACLs from the source document store, and apply those ACLs at search time to e...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Access to container and AM logs submitted by other user IDs in BigIntegrate

We would like to be able to see the container and AM logs submitted by other user IDs in BigIntegrateWe would like a functionality in Yarn (BigIntegrate) that allow other users to see the AM and container logs of the submitting user as allowed for...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration