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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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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...
16 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...
16 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

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...
17 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

show available LLMs that can be deployed on on prem cluster configuration

Software hub shall show list of LLMs available and ready for specific on prem environment. user can choose a model which fits to the settings on prem (sizing, GPU) and triggers deployment to cluster via UI. UI informs the customer whether model is...
25 days ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

enable text extraction (WDU) on GPU

Watsonx.ai shall allow running of text extraction (Watson Data Understanding - WDU) on GPU for faster text extraction performance also. (Note - idea elicitated throughout a TEL engagement with the customer)
25 days ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

Add headers errorStackTrace, error JobId and errorJobName to Oracle CDC evicted transaction error record.

This would allow the user to identify the job that generated the error record. Currently, all three headers are null when there viewing the error record from an Oracle CDC evicted transaction. "errorStackTrace":null, "errorJobId":null, "errorJobNa...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Syntax-Verification of DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES entries upon insert / update

Db2 Systemprofiles are configured via the two tables DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES and are filled by the customer. Some fields are restricted to specific values for proper function. However, there is no errorhandling, in case of inv...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration