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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Provide Alerts on Long running Jobs based on the historic runs

Can we add a feature to alert DataStage batch administrator based on the history of long running jobs.
9 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Index tables in FAP database for better performance of an IP

We tested the time taken for an IP in the PRD environment. In SQL we saw an extreme cost in memory for select queries that the process does in table nrtr_companyrelation We noticed, that this table is not indexed. The whole IP took 2,5h, of which ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

Update sample SMF166 record to include the STCNAME

On systems with more than one source and target server the SMF 166 record contains only the subscription 8 character name. Having the STCNAME for the Source and Target servers in the records will allow for easier monitoring and reporting using the...
2 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Under review

Support for Evaluation of RAG endpoint from using openscale UI

There is no option to choose a RAG approach while we evaluate from the openscale UI .The options currently available are Regression, Classification only. Though, there is option to choose unstructured text/image/numerical features/categorical labe...
4 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Under review

Allow software customisation for spark notebook environment

Makes customisation on existing default spark notebook environments to include additional libraries easier, like how it is currently possible for current Python runtimes. Currently, the only way we can think of is to run pip install in the noteboo...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Questionnaires via REST API

Questionnaires via REST API Currently there is no REST API to pull the Questionnaire Question and responses using the REST API. only option is Cognos. Which is not helpful to get the real-time data.
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

[GOV] ICP4D v.4.8.5 PROD Env (MDI) - Need option to skip asset/column description while publishing the project assets to catalog.

MDI Scan: Column description overwrites description in Catalog. Issue replication: Table and column description created through hydration job is being replaced after MDI Scan and publish in WKC "GCP for marketplace catalog". Expectation: Stop over...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack Delta Extract Stage.This is necessary to support the delta-extraction mode of CDS Views for extraction of data from SAP System for tables that does not support delta extraction via ODP - SAP or...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Official Support for HTTPS Ingress in Kubernetes Deployments

Currently, there are a Python SDK code to deploy one or more SDC on Kubernetes. For Direct REST API access, the approach allows to deploy one or more single instance SDC Deployments. It will be very useful for the customer to be able to deploy mul...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review