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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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Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
15 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Support Request: Integration of cpd-cli Backup and Restore with Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM)

To meet a critical customer requirement, we are seeking support for the integration of the cpd-cli backup and restore functionality with the Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM), which is the customer’s homologated enterprise backup sol...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Submitted

Restrict API access by role / network access

Organizations need the ability to restrict API access based on defined roles and network policies. Allowing teams to limit who can invoke specific APIs—and from which IP addresses—would strengthen security, prevent unauthorized use, and ensure tha...
16 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Enable Private Endpoints for watsonx Orchestrate on IBM Cloud

We have a client who is considering integrating their existing agentic platform with watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) in the future running as a SaaS offering on IBM Cloud. However, their security and compliance policies do not allow outbound or inbound ...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Delivered

Give AI real Forward-thinking cognition, while cutting training and resources needed by 90%

Here are the primary benefits LFM contributes to general AI architecture: 1. Shift from Pattern Matching to Principled Derivation Traditional AI (including most large language models) excels at finding correlations and patterns in massive datasets...
21 days ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF

Please enhance MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF when the client connects toa non-catalog partition. This was highlighted in TS020092882 case "DPF-Non-Catalog-Node-Connection-Is-Not-SSL"This is useful to show correct ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Increase timeout for 'Delete Data change details older than (days)', when trimming large XDBAUDIT table

When customers have very large amounts of information inside their data audit log (i.e. when their XDBAUDIT SQL table gets very large) then the button "Delete" does not work (inside "Maintain - System Audit Log - Configuration"). Specifically: T...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

We will like to see some automated way to change just the IP when we failover to our disaster recovery site instead of making it a manual process on the Admin Console

We have automated the changes we do on our disaster recovery site by submitting batch jobs to alter the ALIAS for InSync once the DB2's start. Since the private Network does not change and we recover via GDPS the accelerator connects with no issue...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Blocking Db2 connections to reduce the DSNL030I message flooding.

Often times, an invalid password or a revoked ID results in DSNL030I message. Some web based applications does not have error handling for this message and keeps on trying to connect to Db2 sometimes at a rate of hundreds per second. This flood of...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Delivered