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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Support for configurable PodDisruptionBudgets (PDB) for CACC

We request full, documented support for Kubernetes PodDisruptionBudgets (PDBs) in IBM Red Hat OpenShift environments running Cognos Analytics Certified Container (CACC), to protect Cognos availability during planned operations (node drain, cluster...
6 minutes ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Enable HTTP/1.1 support in Cognos SOAP SDK to prevent “426 Upgrade Required”

We are currently unable to call CACC (Cognos Analytics Certified Containers) ServiceMesh endpoints via the Cognos SOAP SDK because the requests fail with HTTP error 426 Upgrade Required. The root cause appears to be that the ServiceMesh URL requir...
16 minutes ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

User capability to control REST API access in Cognos (incl. CACC)

Problem On-prem: REST API is only reachable via port 9300, which is blocked by our firewall → customers have no REST API access. In CACC: REST API is reachable via /api without a specific port → customers could directly access the REST API. ...
4 minutes ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Support for Multiple Gateway URIs per Cognos Instance (CACC)

Currently, only one gateway URI can be configured for a Cognos instance (CACC). In modern IT architectures, especially when using ServiceMesh, there is a requirement to provide multiple access paths via different URLs to support various network ro...
5 minutes ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Extend allowed length of diagnostics via MESSAGE_TEXT

When migrating a Db2 connection from the legacy Db2 for i / iSeries setup to the newer Db2 LUW-style .NET provider using the Net.IBM.Data.Db2 NuGet package, we encountered a problem. In the old iSeries situation, custom error messages raised throu...
1 minute ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers Submitted

Data reconciliation and intercompany reconciliation to be available from the company and group command center

We would like the enhancement for data reconciliation and intercompany reconciliation to be available from the company and group command center. The fact that the reconciliation function is being removed from the command center is unfortunate as w...
1 minute ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

specify index to use for particular sql statement within optimizer

We are using IBM MAS Manage. When a user clicks "All Records" under Work Order Tracking, the application issues the SQL statement SELECT * FROM WORKORDER ORDER BY REPORTDATE DESC against the IBM Db2 database. We observed that the Db2 optimizer ign...
about 12 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse Submitted

Support OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow in DataStage Salesforce Connector

Support OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow in DataStage Salesforce Connector Description: The current connector supports User-Password and JWT Bearer flows; however, Salesforce no longer recommends the User-Password Flow due to security concerns. T...
about 13 hours ago in Information Server  / DataStage Submitted

Ability to change on-hold music/message during wxO phone call

Users may want to add their own on-hold music/message while processing/handling requests during wxO phone calls. This idea is to add such a feature within the voice configuration section, to ensure it can replace the default ones the product has.
about 14 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

View last extracted date for objects created by a connection

Current Problem: When I look at a (non-deduced) node in Manta, I am not sure when it was scanned. This becomes an inconvenience for me because :1. I am unable to confirm if I am in compliance with my enterprise governance policy of "ensure your da...
about 15 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted