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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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Please make IBM CDC 11.4 support SQL Server 2025 as a Data Source Target and Source

Please make IBM CDC 11.4 support SQL Server 2025 as a Data Source Target and Source You support all other versions of SQL Server up to 2022 - SQL 2025 now released as of Dec 2025 - please can you add support for SQL Server 2025 to IBM CDC 11.4 As ...
15 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Support for Metadata Import, Data Quality Rules and Meta Data Enrichment with Azure Fabric Warehouse Connector

The connector available on CP4D SaaS only supports Datastage and MDI. In oder to fulfill advanced data governance scenarios, a customer must place an intermediate Databricks repository and duplicate data, making their architecture more complex and...
20 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Let us update the email for OPSystem account

Hi IBM Team, We have several schedulers / auto workflow start jobs that run on OpenPages and because we run this autostart workflow using System, it defaults to using the OPSystem account which will send a confirmation email if the run was success...
23 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Planned for future release

Controller Web import specifications must allow the reuse of a column for different field definitions to avoid customers having to produce duplicate columns

In the version 11.1.1100.47 and forwards it is not possible for in import specification created in Controller Web, to re-use a column in a file 2 or more times for a field in the import spec. This was possible in previous versions. The fact that t...
29 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Manta should include all core types of SAP HANA views for lineage

Why it is useful? Views are an integral part and widely used in SAP HANA applications. They comprise advanced logic describing data and hierarchies, joins, aggregations and transformations that are vital for deriving lineage. The core types of SAP...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

For Db2 z/OS, we need to have a way to find only the committed data present in tables for which we have set AFTER triggers in Db2 and also to have a unit of work ID to identify the commit scope for multiple changes that an occur as part of a single commit. This will enable us to have an efficient mechanism for integration with other applications and software such as IBM zDIH.

It will enable to modernise our heritage applications and enable to expose our data with modern interface quickly.
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

FAP application to support multi-subnet failover

Hi, After Q1 2025 our team proceeded with network migration to greenfield, after which our Cognos MSSQL server went from this setup: one primary, one backup; to this setup: cluster server - when one is in maintenance or overloaded, the other one t...
about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

IBM i 7.6 is pending support testing for CDC

The latest version of IBM i has not yet been tested or officially supported for IBM CDC. Our customer requires confirmation on compatibility and would like to know the estimated timeline (ETA) for testing.
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Add Member Change options to Multi-Select Selectors in Advanced Synchronization

Hello IBM Planning Analytics Team, It would be very useful to extend the Multi-Select Selectors with the ability to use Member Change options in Advanced Synchronization. Currently, Multi-Select Selectors only support Set Change options (i.e., dis...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Convert lsfpollerd, licpollerd, and advocate to system managed service with Restart set to always

SysV init.d scripts are rather old, and do not support the monitoring and restart capabilities in systemd. So, convert these init.d scripts to systemd support and add the Restart option so that admins are comfortable knowing that the operating sys...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release