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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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Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
6 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

Controller Web import specifications must allow the reuse of a column for different field definitions to avoid customers having to produce duplicate columns

In the version 11.1.1100.47 and forwards it is not possible for in import specification created in Controller Web, to re-use a column in a file 2 or more times for a field in the import spec. This was possible in previous versions. The fact that t...
3 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Support Model Input View when using AI in Grid Add Action button

Enable **View definition** input type for "Set Relationship" models by: 1. Allowing the **Add** or **Associate** button to trigger models with view definition input 2. Passing the full view context (all fields including contextual related objects)...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features Under review

Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Dynamic runtime alteration of LLM configs (temperature, reasoning effort, etc)

Can we have more control over how a supervisor agent assembles its message to its collaborators? We'd like to be able to make this more consistent so there is less variance in the user experience and results can be more easily replicated. I've att...
9 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

End to end translation of major languages from all types of media in near-real time.

As commerce, military, and technology integration grows across nations, the need for an all-in-one service is very high.
9 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Needs more information

Incremental/Delta Processing for Large Document Updates in UDI Flows

UDI flows currently reprocess an entire document when any change is detected — even a single line edit. For documents with hundreds or thousands of pages, this means every page is re-chunked, re-enriched, re-embedded, and re-stored in Milvus, rega...

Implement the same logic for TERMINATE Connection as for CREATE Connection (PH67087)

We want to tune our MAXDBAT values based on workload related DBAT processing. But currently the counters like QDSTHWAT are overloaded by the TERMINATE connection processing. For CREATE Connection ther eis already an APAR which solves this problem ...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Deadlines shown in Controller Web should be able to show other 24 clock format instead of hardcoded AM / PM

When showing the Deadline times in Controller Web, there is only the possibility today to show the AM /PM formats. It is not possible to show as a 24 hour clock format, for instance that 5:03PM could be shown as 17:03.
17 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

Access Transaction Log via Right-click menu

Would let users quickly and easily check the transition history for a cell without going into (or needing access) to a Workbench, and then having to set up the correct query.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted