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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Enhancing Performance and Latency metrics with append when you relog to MC

Useful to cross verify the latency and performance , also to keep an historical data for the benchmark , also sending the data to datadog, splunk, appdynamics or grafana these tools are being used by many clients and it will be useful to send our ...
1 day ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Actionable error handling and troubleshooting guidance for known limitations for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

When synchronization errors occur due to known limitations (e.g., FIELDPROC, RRF, or other restrictions), IBM Data Gate for watsonx currently exposes generic error messages that complicate troubleshooting. In some cases, lack of proper handling ha...
about 19 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Centralized and queryable monitoring logs and alerts for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Currently, error identification and log analysis in IBM Data Gate for watsonx are difficult and inefficient. Errors may occur without appearing in the Event tab or any centralized monitoring interface. During multiple PoC/POT activities, troublesh...
about 19 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Table-level synchronization monitoring for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Today, IBM Data Gate for watsonx exposes only generic monitoring information (e.g., inserted rows, updated rows) at a global level, without visibility into synchronization status per database or table. This makes it difficult for customers to: Val...
about 19 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Efficient ingestion with equality deletes and automated optimization to vector deletes for Iceberg tables for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Bradesco recognizes that generating vector deletes directly within IBM Data Gate for watsonx is not feasible, as it would require read-after-write operations and significantly degrade synchronization performance. To solve this, we propose a two-st...
about 19 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Table-level error handling for batch load operations for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Today, when executing batch load operations across multiple tables, if a single table encounters an error or limitation, IBM Data Gate for watsonx fails the entire batch silently, without generating errors or events. This results in: No tables bei...
about 19 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Support transformations for the OpenLineage Column Level Lineage dataset facet.

Why it is useful? Transformations are an integral part in any data flow representation. They comprise logic describing data, functions and process information that are vital for deriving lineage on an attribute. A field of an output in Column Leve...
about 21 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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...
3 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Submitted

Add GUI-based enforcement of minimum client version for Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE)

Dear team, In earlier TM1 versions, administrators could block outdated client versions by setting the ClientVersionMinimum parameter in tm1s.cfg. This parameter has since been deprecated and is no longer supported or available in current releases...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted