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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Allow forwarded jobs to automatically return to the original cluster after a configurable pending timeout in the remote cluster.

In a MultiCluster environment, jobs can be forwarded from the original cluster to a remote cluster based on the MC_FORWARD_DELAY setting. However, once a job has been forwarded, it cannot return to the original cluster even if resources become ava...
about 1 hour ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Submitted

Add Option to Preserve ReAct Reasoning ("Thought") in Context

Problem When using ReAct-style agents in multi-agent configurations, the system removes "Thought:" portions from responses before storing them in context. This causes format inconsistency and behavior instability. Current Behavior Child agents out...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Implement Oracle Connection Manager in default connector

Oracle Connection Manager is a widely implemented and popular enterprise feature that adds a proxy layer before Oracle databases, exposing services such as session multiplexing, access control, and protocol conversion. Cloud Pak for Data should al...
16 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Support Oracle lineage extraction in Data Guard read-only environments without requiring primary database access

DESCRIPTION Many enterprise Oracle environments use Oracle Data Guard architectures where governance and metadata tools are allowed to access only read-only standby databases, while direct access to production primary databases is restricted. Curr...
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Native Ab Initio Connector for IBM watsonx.data

Develop a native and officially supported connector that enables Ab Initio to read data from and ingest data into IBM watsonx.data, a native connector should simplify data exchange between both platforms and support: Ingesting data into Apache Ice...
7 days ago in watsonx.data Submitted

Hierarchy selection in selector widget's set editor

When you add a selector tile for a dimensions hierarchy, it is possible to open the set editor from this widget by double-click. But in the open set editor the selection for the hierarchy is greyed out. So, user can adjust the dropdown's list of e...
about 3 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

IBM Controller Web frontend lacks PDF/Excel export for intercompany reconciliation reports, forcing users to manually screenshot individual discrepancies instead of generating consolidated documents available in the Classic Version.

In the Classic Version of the IBM Controller, all reports for intercompany reconciliation can be accessed as PDF or Excel files without any customization. With those files the mentioned discrepancies can be forwarded to the accounting department a...
about 19 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

IBM Events Operator to be supported and installed via create-argo-apps.

The `cpd-cli manage create-argo-apps` command should generate IBM Events Operator manifests that work without manual intervention. This is useful because it enables automated CP4D deployments and reduces deployment complexity. The tool should gene...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

We would like to use the Db2 CDDS

If we use the Db2 CDDS, how should we proceed with Db2 Cloning Tool when we clone some database or tablespace. Please see case number TS022353864
1 day ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS Submitted

Name Resolution on CP4D level

We have a CP4D Deplyoment on Openshift and want to deliver data into an Azure Datalake Store using a private Endpoint. The communication shall go via an Express Route. Actually we don not yet have a Hybrid DNS (no DNS forwarding from OnPrem) so th...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted