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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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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

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Under review

Watsonx.ai on-prem monitoring of token & compute usage

At present, WatsonX.ai software does not support automated extraction of Large Language Model (LLM) usage metrics. Although token usage information is accessible, it is often buried within log files or only displayed in the prompt lab window. For ...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai Submitted

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

Enhancing Performance and Latency metrics with append when you relog to MC

Useful to cross verify the latency and performance , also to keep an historical data for the benchmark , also sending the data to datadog, splunk, appdynamics or grafana these tools are being used by many clients and it will be useful to send our ...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Building Reliable flows with Orchestration Pipelines

When working with data pipelines , failures can occur at multiple stages due to network disruptions, database outages, or incorrect transformations. Enterprise environments requires reliability, since some pipelines can be used to mission-critical...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Functionality already exists

Data gate instance be able to write on Object Storage which require security certificate (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client wants to adopt an Object Storage (S3) technology with the use of security certificate to store data synchronized by Data Gate for watsonx (DG4WX). Currently the DG4WX doesn't support security certificate to access, read and write data o...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 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.
18 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

Add "correlation id" and "auth id" to SYSMONITOR_LOAD_HISTORY

For LOAD_HISTORY AoT, Nationwide wants to associate the output with the z/OS load jobs or RACF ids. Can IBM add columns like "correlation id" and "auth id" to the AoT table?
about 2 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Under review

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...