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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.

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CDC Latency - Long running UR

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017574974 - Cdc latency wrong value on MC. When there is long running UR in the staging space (meaning the data is way behind), MC shows 0 latency value. Because of the all applications see this 0 ...
12 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

There is growing demand to have longer first name, would like the MDM First name length be increased

Currently lot of jurisdiction has implemented IDS to support longer name, as there is a large demand to increase the name length due to many immigrants come to north America . Example, Ontario Health has created IDS for name, which has below lengt...
6 months ago in Master Data Management 2 Under review

Data Refinery Fails to Process Aliased SQL Columns

A user running a Data Refinery flow against a SQL Query asset is encountering a SQL error. The user has aliased a column in the SQL query (e.g., from default_category_value to source_category_value). However, when the Data Refinery flow generates ...
19 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Snowflake Connector Bulk Unload

Hi, We are migrating our Teradata DB to Snowflake on Azure. We are migrating our datastage jobs accordingly. We need to unload large volume of data with Snowflake Connector, using Bulk unload, the same way we do bulk load (CREATE STAGE - COPY INTO...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Please support LockTimeout parameter in IBM data server provider for .NET

It's currently not possible to configure the LockTimeout Parameter in .net applications on client side (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1?topic=keywords-locktimeout). This would help us to optimize our environment.
7 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Validation for Returns and Reversals in FTM CPS

Bank of Nova Scotia (aka Scotia Bank) in Canada is implementing IBM FTM CPS to support electronic payments processing compliant with Payments Canada Standard 005. According to the standard (Standard 005 - link), **certain fields marked with * or *...

Token exchange - Use token created in customer's OIDC enterprise IdP to login in CP4D

Context: Customer is building in .NET their own Data Marketplace based on IBM CP4D (IKC+DV). One of the principal users will be Healthcare, that wants to publish and share data between users in a secure platform. Then, because of security requirem...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Under review

Backup and restore IBM Cloud Pak with Kasten

Hello, We are using Kasten (VEEAM) to backup and restore all of our apps on Openshift and we would like to use it also for IBM Cloud Pak (for data, for automation, for integration, ...). Regards.
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Under review

CDC Forced Stop on Log Deletion

I am writing to request an enhancement in the CDC (Change Data Capture) functionality to include a forced stop mechanism when logs required by the XStream API are deleted. Currently, CDC continues to wait for logs from the XStream API, which resul...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review