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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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Would like Business rules to not allow a second click of the activate button or a flag be set that activation has started and not allow other attempts to activate again until it is complete.

A release was accidently activated twice within 2 minutes, while Business Rules was tied up, it kept inbound files from processing. This caused files to go into error in inbound physical transmissions. Files were able to be successfully restarted ...
4 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Pod Documentation

We would need a Page in the documentation where all pods are described and its usage based on software usage. The last year we often strugeled to know which pod to restart as a first measure to solve bugs. Most times we opened a ticket and afterwa...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

AD - Support for GSAM file usage

My customer programs use GSAM for file access so that programs can use checkpoint restart. The files accessed via GSAM are not shown as files on the call-graph. Nor are they shown as IMS databses. Same as the Ideas below. https://ideas.ibm.com/ide...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas 0 Under review

Shutdown gracefully of IKC

Background: - Customer needs to restart the CP4D cluster to do maintenance operations as explained in : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CPDIDEAS-I-2164 - The only service left with the "shutdown" feature for my customer is IKC. - Also, it will help us...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enable rolling restarts of SDC as a standard pattern.

Currently, there are too many restarts of the SDC and all the SDC's dependent on the change in the deployment need to be restarted. Lets enable the restats to happen in a rolling manner, one SDC at a time. This capability is kind of available in a...
8 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Enable self-service deployment of new JARs, JKS and custom libraries without requiring NFS or S3 buckets and without requiring SDC restarts

Very often users want to add new jars or have their own java key stores. Currently, these are done administratively and that too requires an S3 or NFS location and then requires a restart of the data collector. This involves engaging the administr...
8 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

QRadar: Maintain Last Position in Cisco FMC Log Collection via eStreamer Protocol

Description: When collecting logs from Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) using the eStreamer protocol, an issue arises if the FMC system undergoes a reboot. During the FMC reboot, traffic logs generated on Cisco Firewalls are sent after the ...
11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Port config issue on deployment

We have been facing issues with pods during restart of services and found this is related to a bug gap in the REST API used for deploying new pods and the port range assigned. Please reference case TS012155811 for more details.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Under review

Support retries at the node level in Watsonx Pipelines

Currently Watsonx Pipelines do not support interacting at the node level for restarting tasks in case of failures and require rerunning the entire pipeline job. This makes it complicated to use for complex pipelines where any given task could fail...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review