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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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IBM CDC replication - Target scenario - Mongodb Atlas or Mongo DB CE or EE. CDC Engine for this specific target does not proceed with replication if collection is blank or not created. We need replication to work BAU even if target does not have corresponding collections and/or data in the collections.

1. Customer has already requested and asserted it as a missing feature. 2. In the absence of this feature, customer has requested for an utility which will automate the creation of collection and/or dummy row with the matching datatype at par with...
3 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

Smart Split Data Modeling

When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

output F-values and Chi-square values in DataAudit.

Currently, when the response variable is continuous and the predictor variables are also continuous, correlation coefficients, T-values, and importance are available in DataAudit. Sorting by correlation coefficient makes it easy to find variables ...
3 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

SCH Job Monitoring / Job History should display the lastest SDC ID(s) on which a failover retry was attempted

When an SCH job fails over and enters INACTIVE_RED, there is currently no way for end users to tell via the Job Monitoring UI or Job History UI which SDC ID(s) the job is currently attempting to be retried on if the job is failing due to a START_E...
4 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
26 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Add a way to wait for bufferpool creation when creating tablespaces

What we do when creating tablespaces as part of migration files (think flyway, but any similar utility will be relevant) is to create a bufferpool and then create the tablespace. Example: create bufferpool dummy size 5000 pagesize 8k; create table...
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Let Capture build the transaction message with non-LOB columns first and LOB columns last instead of in strict column sequence order.

Please consider changing Capture to build transaction messages with all non-LOB data first, then add on the LOB data after all other non-LOB data no matter what the sequence numbers. This would prevent the risk of splitting a message on non-LOB da...

service level backup for openpages

would need automated service level backup for open pages alone so in cases where there are multiple services being consumed and a cluster level backup might loose progress in restoration, scenario 1:customer is using openpages and cognos but two d...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 0 Submitted

cpd-cli manage command suddenly fails with inconsistent SSL error/timeout when http_proxy, https_proxy, and no_proxy variables are configured

The failure occurs even when correct http_proxy, https_proxy, and no_proxy variables are configured in the environment and inside the OLM Utils container (olm-utils-play-v3). The OLM utility Python client ignores the configured NO_PROXY values. As...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

FIPS 140-2 Level 2 encryption key

Currently, Planning Analytics on Cloud supports FIPS 140-2 Level 1. The minimum security requirement is FIPS 140-2 Level 2.
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted