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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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.

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Support OAuth-based Git Authentication via Git CLI

Manta currently supports pulling files from Git repositories for scanning purposes. It uses the JGit library to establish Git connections. However, modern Git providers are increasingly moving away from static credentials (username/password or lon...
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Dynamic Navigation Target for Action Buttons (Book and Sheet name driven by TM1 Cube or Parameters)

Dear team, Description: Currently, Action Buttons in Planning Analytics Workspace only support static navigation targets for Book name and Sheet (Tab) name. It should be possible to define these targets dynamically at runtime by reading values fro...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Always‑Available OpenPages: Zero‑Downtime Configuration Deployments

Enterprise customers increasingly expect high availability and uninterrupted access to governance, risk, and compliance systems. Currently, OpenPages configuration deployments result in temporary system unavailability, impacting business users dur...
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Future consideration

Make User Memory default to ON. Currently User Memory default is OFF

Idea: User memory should be ON by default and users could opt out. This'd give users the better experience by default without them needing to figure out that the memory is there and how to turn it on. Impact: We cannot use Agent Memory currently b...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

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...
2 days 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...
2 days 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...
2 days 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...
3 days 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...
3 days 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 ...
3 days ago in StreamSets Submitted

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