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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,

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  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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Add network‑level metrics and break latency into source, transport, and target components

Network‑level observability is currently minimal; there is no visibility into gets/puts, zero‑window conditions, retransmissions, or other TCP indicators. End‑to‑end latency is reported as a single number based on transaction commit time, which hi...
27 minutes ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Enable continuous, per‑subscription performance statistics and catch‑up estimations

The DB2 z/OS source engine only reports discrete, commit‑based metrics, and many source‑side statistics are available only at the capture level (e.g., log‑cache footprint). As a result, operators have no visibility into subscription‑level read rat...
35 minutes ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Provide component‑level bottleneck diagnostics and root‑cause metrics for CDC pipelines

Customers cannot reliably identify the exact part of the pipeline that is limiting performance. Current snapshot views only surface a generic “target database” or “Target Engine” bottleneck, and the “SOURCE communication wait” metric shows that th...
38 minutes ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Basic data lineage reports and support with lineage tooling

As a user of CDC, I want to be able to answer basic questions about the data lineage of my subscriptions easily and in an automated way. Today, if an internal customer asks where my data is going this is a manual effort and takes time to solve. Th...
31 minutes ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Enable Collect Statistics for Subscriptions by Default

If performance statistics are not enabled for a subscription, there is no way to troubleshoot or debug issues in the future. As a user of CDC, I want to avoid having performance statistics turned on by default would help with troubleshooting. I am...
about 5 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Retry Logic

Why it is usufull , Pipelines self-heal, Data keeps flowing consistent and Operational noise is reduced. Retry only transient failures Timeouts Network issues Temporary locks Retryable HTTP status codes (e.g., 408, 429, 5xx) Limit retries Prevent ...
about 6 hours ago in StreamSets Submitted

Add ability to test final rules in the test sandbox

Final rules could be more readily and easily verified by allowing them to be tested through the test sandbox.
about 5 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Submitted

Copy where clause from an Adhoc to a Goup by query and vice versaThe

Having the ability to copy the where clause from one query to another would make writing queries much more streamlined.
about 5 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 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

Have the select all option which will select all the value in the multi-select field

Have the select all option which will select all the value in the multi-select field where is lets say we have country field which has 200 value and user want to select 190 values than user have to go select each and every value. can we bring an o...
about 4 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted