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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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Instead of 504 errors, concise errors should be surfaced to the user, instead of having to dig through CP4D/vLLM logs

Instead of 504 errors, if it's something surfaced from vLLM like: 2025-08-22T00:41:31.362506975Z ERROR 08-22 00:41:31 [serving_chat.py:200] ValueError: This model's maximum context length is 128000 tokens. However, you requested 844373 tokens (840...
3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

[Customer-Humana, Pronaca] Ability to customize subject line and body for email notifications sent out for alerts/errors

When using an email executor we can specify recipients, as well as custom subject line and body. But, in case of email notifications sent out for errors or alerts, we can only specify recipients. Can we extend this to add subject and body and make...
3 months ago in StreamSets 1 Under review

Streaming for Audio Functionality

It would be beneficial to have a streaming option for the new audio functionality in watsonx.ai. This would enable live transcription, which is a common use case.
3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Support for Pulsar 3.X Version in Data collector

As Per the Streamsets documentation, SDC 6.x only supports Apache Pulsar up to version 2.6.2. Customer has the need to support Apache Pulsar version 3.x. They have an internal mandate to upgrade to Pulsar 3.X from November 2025. Before that can we...
3 months ago in StreamSets 5

Expand credential fields to include. endpoint URLs

Expand credential fields to include endpoint URLs. This would allow better security for example in the case where a Redis URL contains a password as well as better parameterization whenmoving connections across environments. One can already retrie...
7 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Allow renaming of Kubernetes deployments

CBRE manages their Kubernetes deployments manually through their own yaml files and integrates with Control Hub via Python SDK scripts. They also integrate with Datadog. Because of the dynamic naming of the deployment in the fashion of streamsets-...
3 months ago in StreamSets 1 Future consideration

Add support for Hadoop corresponding to AWS EMR 7.8.x

OCLC have many critical business use cases around Hadoop and run an open-source flavor of it. They are currently running components corresponding to Cloudera CDP 7.1.7 but are planning to move to components corresponding to AWS EMR 7.8.0 and are a...
3 months ago in StreamSets 1 Not under consideration

AWS_MSK_IAM SASL_MECHANISM support for Kafka stages

Ability to use connections to connect to Kafka endpoint, access provided through IAM role via the AWS_MSK_IAM SASL mechanism. Currently, Kafka stages allows Security Protocol=CUSTOM for manually configuring Java Properties for the Kafka Client, bu...
7 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Add support for top level union schemas in Kafka Avro schema support

Support top-level unions for Avro schemas instead of just top-level record schemas. Example top-level union: ["null", { "type": "record", "name": "SampleRecord", "fields": [ { "name": "id", "type": "string" }, { "name": "name", "type": "strin...
7 months ago in StreamSets 2 Not under consideration

Support to load LIST-MAP field type to Object Data Type in Snowflake

LexisNexis is consuming data from MongoDB and writing to Snowflake. The consumer stage always returns all fields as LIST-MAP type. Requesting to extend support for LIST-MAP fields to load into Object datatype? This would help us avoid additional t...
7 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review