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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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Use the engines of the lakehouse in Git integrated projects

We have an instance of watsonx.data in CP4D, installed on Openshift in Azure Cloud. Within watsonx.data we have buckets representing azure containers within a Azure Blob storage. In projects that are integrated with Git, when we need to configure ...

A Github integration ensures enterprise-grade governance, automation, and agility for data engineering workflows. By leveraging GitHub and LevelUp tooling, clients gain robust version control, rollback capabilities, and automated testing/deployment for pipelines and DAGs. It reduces operational risk, accelerates delivery, and aligns with modern DevOps practices.

Large enterprise clients like AT&T, who manage complex data pipelines across hybrid environments, will benefit from streamlined CI/CD processes, improved security, and consistent governance across services. How should it work? GitHub Integra...

Support new connection type for watsonx.data and support for Spark engines in it

Documentation: https://ibm-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/p/shrinivas_kulkarni_in/EcUbCoYhyVRJmWrwscDVUx8B0jxHp5cqCLtr4E7xuCGDMw?e=tbj8w8 Future State Support for new connection type to point to a specific Spark Engine of watsonx.data, either on SaaS or so...

Request for Product Enhancement – Low Latency Data Processing Capabilities in watsonx.data

The customer is currently using watsonx.data to support a high-partition, high-ingestion analytics platform. While the system is now stable after several patches and fixes, they are looking ahead to future enhancements that can meet their true low...

Disabling performance monitoring throughout the entire application.

When doing performance testing, we want to eliminate anything that could possibly affect performance. One recurring question is whether the application's internal performance monitoring has any adverse impact. Without a way to disable the applicat...
5 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

Outbound Transmissions Page - Please add filter option for "Transmission Definition" column.

Currently in FTM 3.0.5.4 and 3.0.5.5, on the Outbound Transmission page, the Transmission Definition column is not filterable. Several of the other columns are. The Transmission Definition column should be added to the filter options.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

UI hides reject codes for items accepted in review

When an item has been accepted in Review, the 'Rejects and Warnings' and 'Total Validation count' has IQA result removed When an item is flagged as having "Image too dark" issues, the 'Rejects and Warnings' and 'Total Validation count' values in t...
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

OpenShift Secrets can be viewed as clear text on pods

Credentials setup as OpenShift secrets are readable in clear text on pods, e.g. /startup/variables on Gateway/BR/Transaction pods, /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/variables/ on liberty pods, and /secrets/db2instancepwd/ on database pods. We...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0

Extend the functionality of the Business Day Category

Even though the application allows business days to be opened for multiple categories, the functionality was not implemented completely. For example, there is no option to make the business day current independently for each category. It makes the...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

Save off openshift logs when a POD is recycled or crashes.

When an OPENSHIFT POD is either recycled or if a POD crashes the log conatined within the POD is lost. Even though there are 3rd party options to save the log(s) we believe IBM should make it part of their deployment to have the logs saved off. Th...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 2 Functionality already exists