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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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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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Mutual TLS/SSL for the AVRO Schema Registry Connection

Currently, the connection to the AVRO Schema Registry supports SSL/TLS connection but not mutual, using client certificates or other ways to authenticate the client system. It should be possible, the same way it is for the rest of connections, MCI...
6 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Enable SQL optimization, also known as SQL pushback, for Cloudera connector

Enlarge the list of data sources that benefit from this performance improvement by adding another connector. All customers worldwide using Modeler on CP4D and Cloudera will benefit from this improvement.
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing). ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Promp...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Governing image-based prompts in watsonx.governance

It would be highly valuable if watsonx.governance could support use cases by allowing images to be seamlessly integrated into prompt templates and deployments, in the same way text is currently handled. This capability would enable organizations t...
4 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Request for a plugin to address the lockout issue. To be implemented included in FP3 Patch delivery

This new RFE has been requested by the IBM Dev Team. Reference https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPCS-I-1113__;!!Jkho33Y!jDQwS2syU1P26kiq9Pqd2MGED4qxhSXCiN4gZsyyO2Z-zpfFnTNMScAaj75qeJFe4dspTQVNgkf4mZJ0D2L83g$ "For plugin lock...
17 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Automatically clean up old job instances

CBRE has lots of old job instances as a result of frequent Kubernetes redeployments to deal with a separate product defect related to jobs being stuck in an ACTIVATING state. They were trying to delete them iteratively through the UI but kept hitt...
17 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

update the table of contents for an impact analysis report on Understand for Watsonx Code Assistant for z

Hi, The impact analysis report are not easy to understand. What could be something good and helpuf is that we have directly on the table of contents the name of the program where the data is included. As you can see on the picture, you have 4 time...

An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
18 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

provide example model deployment configurations

Provide repository of example recipes that truly reflects most possible LLMs (standard, supported - if possible BYO) configurations for different GPU configurations (e.g., gpt-oss 120 B configurations are not available for any configuration that i...
25 days ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted