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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.

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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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.
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

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 ...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Option to Disable Insight from Cognos Assistant

When the Cognos Assistant is queried, it returns both analytical outputs (such as charts and visualizations) as well as accompanying insights. However, since the Cognos Assistant does not leverage an LLM-based approach, these insights are generate...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Submitted

Make scroll cursors more consistent when lists/collections are involved

This RFE is for removing the protection to disable collection types in scroll cursor at the prepare phase, and fail only at runtime if the cursor retrieves a row greater than row limit.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server Under review

Enabling a configurable dump directory for all automatically generated diagnostic files

Currently, Db2 does not support redirecting automatically non -FODC (EDU dumps, stack , “flight recorder” ) dump files to a custom dump directory; instead these files are always written to DIAGPATH. Enabling a configurable dump directory for all a...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Implement vault access for storing passwords (instead of storing them in config files)

IBM provides Db2 LDAP plug-in modules capabilities as e. g. described here for Db2 v12.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1.x?topic=support-configuring-ldap-plug-in-modules There are two parameters (keys) listed, namely SSL_PW and SEARCH_PW. Th...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration

Proactively post messages to a channel via WXO (API)

There are tons of usecases where it is helpful to be able to proactively send messages to a channel which is connected to wxo already. Assume the following usecase:A user is creating a ticket for something not working in their flat with their prop...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

One Request Per Batch Functionality for Web Client Stages

The option is there to have one request per batch in the stage, but nothing is populating the request body. The current workaround is to aggregate the records from the batch into a single record using the following Groovy script and configuring th...
10 days ago in StreamSets Submitted

Auth Token Renewal in Web Client Stages

This is mentioned in the documentation: Note: When using OAuth, all per-status actions configured for 401 Unauthorized and 403 Forbidden statuses are ignored. Instead, the stage generates a new OAuth token. If the same error occurs again, the stag...
10 days ago in StreamSets Submitted