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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.

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Enable a parallel text chat stream while using the voice experience, allowing users to see the conversation in real time while interacting via voice

Currently, when voice mode is enabled in watsonx Orchestrate, the user enters a voice-only interaction that behaves like a phone call with the virtual agent. During this experience, the textual conversation is not visible in real time within the c...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

SSH certificate for DB2 Purescale user authentication

Our customer has a DB2 Purescale environment configred, that was configured by default with ssh keys per product specification. But per Customer requirements, they need to replace ssh keys with ssh certificates, but DB2 does not currently test or ...
1 day ago in Db2 / pureScale Submitted

Enhancement Proposal: SAML and OpenID Connect Integration for IIDR Access Server

This proposal suggests an enhancement to the IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Access Server to support modern authentication and authorization mechanisms using SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).Currently, authentication mechanisms may rely ...
about 5 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Brushing Improvements

Brushing is great step, but it could be improved in a few ways. We should be able to use items defined in data container properties. I would expect that I would be able to set parameters on items defined in the list properties. At the moment if th...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Make CPD vault secret sharing dynamic when using a group

On Cloud-Pak-for-Data (CPD), an existing internal vault's secret is shared with other CPD users via a group (e.g. CPD shadow group that is linked to an OIDC IDP group) When a new user is added to this group (on the IDP), the vault secret is still ...
about 4 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Support passthrough-only expressions in native SQL on Db2 for z/OS

It has been asked for before but at the last GUIDE GSE Germany it was once again discussed. The requirement is for some, at least the REGEXP_% ones, of the passthrough-only expressions to be really supported in Db2 for z/OS native. More and more d...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Officially integrate the "Sample to fire trigger using API Key" accelerator into the Cognos Analytics product

We're going to switch our SSO authentication method from "LDAP for Active Directory" to OpenID Connect. We're launching some burst batches using the trigger.sh script provided in the Cognos installation. This script requires a username and passwor...
about 13 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config Submitted

Unified Lineage Manta connectors don't support HTTP Proxy

Unified Lineage Manta connectors don't support HTTP Proxy while Manta OEM supported. That is blocking the move from one solution to another which seems to be the strategy of IBM.
about 14 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Speed up and align view exports

Dear development team, we observed for big views that the exports via in-built solutions such like - PAW "Import/Export"-->"Export data" - "Export"-button in PAW Cube-viewer - "Export"-button in UI API Cube-viewer are by far(!) slower than expo...
about 13 hours ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration