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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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Detailed Status and Logging for API-Based Data Loads in Controller

Current Challenge In the Classic Client, detailed log reports are available for data uploaded to Controller. Similarly, Controller Web provides status and detailed logs for consolidations, manual web imports, and a summary of Classic imports, incl...
5 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
5 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Automated Monitoring and Recovery for Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service

Description Currently, the Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service requires manual monitoring and restarting through Controller Web. There is no alert mechanism to notify stakeholders when the service stops due to errors, resulting in a highly m...
5 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Handling commas in RDS codes

When uploading codes with commas in the code, the RDS will export with \\ to manage the comma. The \\ need to be replaced with a double quote to align with csv formatting best practices.
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
2 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

The timestamp function does not yet fully support use across multiple global locations with different time zones

For example, the timestamp is set for Tokyo time and for US end users, when they sign-off on something using the workflow. If they are signing off on a test using the action button in the workflow at 12:00 noon, it will show a date of the next day...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Planned for future release

Native Version Control Capabilities for AI Agents

Introduce native version control capabilities for AI agents in watsonx Orchestrate. This feature would allow users to create, tag, and manage multiple versions of the same agent—enabling safer deployments, rollback to previous versions, and tracea...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Planned for future release

OOTB support for AWS Bedrock models

Ability to select Bedrock's gpt-oss-120b, Claude Sonnet or Haiku as the model powering an agent, so that I can take advantage of the improved performance and features of those new models.
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release

Improve Object Selection Stability in Tree Pane of Planning Analytics Workbench

Dear IBM Support Team, I am submitting this enhancement request to address an inconsistency in the object selection behavior within the Tree Pane of the Planning Analytics Workbench. Currently, selecting and copying object names is unreliable, whi...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Users to Upload files in Action Button in PAW

In V12.5.0, security changes were made so that non-admin users are no longer able to upload CSV/Files in an action button within the PAW interface. Now only admin users can upload files with a PAW action button. Within out region, we have several ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release