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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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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.

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Provide native capability to write metrics to a a standard product eg: prometheus

Platform teams wants pipeline metrics to be available to users through standard platforms such as prometheus. While can be worked around and instrumented, it should be out-of the box
21 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Provide out of box logging capability instead of having to resort to Groovy to write to log files

This would allow developers to instrument the pipeline and write key / custom logging to the log file. It could be implemented similar to how we allow creation of rules between stages
21 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Password credentials should not show the password once it has been entered. This is a security risk

Customers do not feel secure if the password entered can be shown back on the screen. It should be visible during entry and then permanently starred (***) out. This is how many other UI based applications behave today. Yes, we could tell customers...
21 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Simplify expression evaluation notation and reference to variables

Currentlywe need a syntax of $ then a set of curly brackets {} and then a value. and for values, its record:value('/<the attribute>'). The above becomes very convoluted and long when you have a case statement of other long expressions. It wo...
21 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Provide API auth mechanisms such as JWT and OAUTH

Enables use of standard authentication methods and not just one build custom with StreamSets
21 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Enable rolling restarts of SDC as a standard pattern.

Currently, there are too many restarts of the SDC and all the SDC's dependent on the change in the deployment need to be restarted. Lets enable the restats to happen in a rolling manner, one SDC at a time. This capability is kind of available in a...
21 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Enable self-service deployment of new JARs, JKS and custom libraries without requiring NFS or S3 buckets and without requiring SDC restarts

Very often users want to add new jars or have their own java key stores. Currently, these are done administratively and that too requires an S3 or NFS location and then requires a restart of the data collector. This involves engaging the administr...
21 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Create explanatory documentation or announcements about the CP4D shift to knative eventing

In recent versions, IBM have moved away from the internal IBM Events Operator, to the open source knative-eventing. This has technical ramifications, which are minor. But customers should be given an explanation of this, and be forewarned that the...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Insync: monitor table status after W8004 failure events

The customer migrated from CDC to Insync; there are some alarms related to CHC0742I/CHC0743I messages (IDLE and ACTIVE status) The message about ACTIVE status (like CHC0743I message) is not available in Insync so manual check are required after W8...
3 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

WCA4z ADDI to be a real-time snapshot

BBVA wanted the code in ADDI to be a real-time snapshot, or almost real-time. If a developer made a change that modified a dependency, they wanted the rest of the developers to be able to see it quickly and not have to wait until the next day.
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review