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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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Enhance the capability to connect to Azure KeyVault and get private keys for snowflake authentication

This request is from Blue Yonder Pvt Ltd. (Formally JDA SOFTWARE GROUP_INC) As Snowflake is officially deprecating username and password authentication (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/security-mfa-rollout#deprecation-timeline) , we have ...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Identifying Real Users When Using a Service Account API Key

Currently, when using a service account API key, all threads are created under the "service account user," which prevents distinguishing the actual end user who initiated each thread. We propose adding support for passing user identification metad...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Agent Release Details Display

Display key agent metadata on the frontend, including the internal name (not just the display name), release version, and release date. This way, users can easily identify which version of each agent is currently active across the Chat, Manage, an...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Future consideration

Add support for the multi-region access endpoints by extending the validations to accept the endpoints as this is required for Disaster Recovery

All the details of this request are found in https://github.ibm.com/lakehouse/tracker/issues/35080 AWS Multi Region (MRAP) required for Disaster Recovery for TSYS deployment of watsonx.data lakehouse. This is currently not supported by Software Hu...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 0

Central location for cpd-cli-workspace directory and logging of the cpd-cli

When running the cpd-cli command a "cpd-cli-workspace" directory is created in the current working directory. Looking for an environmental variable that can be used to define where the "cpd-cli-workspace" directory is created when running the cpd-...
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Support DDL replication for watsonx.data through change log business goal

Customer's RFI requested for DDL replication for heterogeneous database type (ie. Oracle to DB2, pgsql to wxd). This is a important feature because they have thousands of daily DDL operations in their production environments and cannot manually tr...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

Adding Financial function Internal Rate of Return (IRR) to TM1 Rules

Adding an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) feature to IBM Planning Analytics TM1 Rules will significantly enhance its value for financial analysis and decision-making. IRR is a crucial metric for evaluating the profitability of investments and projec...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 6 Submitted

CDC could check in advance whether the log record provided by IFI 306 can be discarded, as in cases of records originating from utilities such as REBUILD INDEX.

Today we have some REBUILD INDEXES that run on very large NPI indexes, as consequence of LOAD INDEXDEFER NPI. These REBUILD INDEXES last some hours to finish. We noticed IBM CDC for Db2 z/OS follows units of recovery (URs) generated by these REBUI...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
2 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration