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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    Detailed Status and Logging for API-Based Data Loads in Controller

    Current Challenge In the Classic Client, detailed log reports are available for data uploaded to Controller. Similarly, Controller Web provides status and detailed logs for consolidations, manual web imports, and a summary of Classic imports, incl...
    8 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

    Automated Monitoring and Recovery for Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service

    Description Currently, the Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service requires manual monitoring and restarting through Controller Web. There is no alert mechanism to notify stakeholders when the service stops due to errors, resulting in a highly m...
    7 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

    Reorg Tablespace template for version mismtach with CDC

    In a test environment, it's quite common to observe a higher volume of modifications, which naturally leads to a larger data version compared to the source environment. Given this context, planning a reorganization to address such discrepancies—es...
    19 days ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Allow click+drag functionality to highlight cells

    In Contributor our users were accustomed to being able to left click a cell and drag their mouse to select a large group of cells at once. In PAW they are not able to do this. The option does exist to Left Click to select a cell and then Shift + L...
    about 1 hour ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    SFTP processor does not fetch new files

    The issue manifests in such a way that the SFTP processor processes only some files, while other files are not processed at all. The root cause is that the StreamSets engineering team implemented the SFTP processor using offsets instead of file na...
    about 6 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    Support exactly once message delivery for Kafka

    Due to the lack of support for the exactly-once delivery model, StreamSets Data Collector cannot be used in a large number of practical use cases, which significantly reduces its overall applicability. The importance of exactly-once delivery is fu...
    about 6 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    Preserving Column Order for ROWID and XML Columns in ADB2GEN

    In the ADB2GEN program, generating the DDL with the following parameters GENROWID = 'O' and LOBOBJECTS = 'C', allows the ROWID column to be created in the same position as in the source table. This is particularly useful when the ROWID column is n...
    about 10 hours ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Add Connections information as a metric into active Nginx pods and update HPA configuration to scale based on connections, not CPU.

    On December 2nd, 2025 when Digital traffic was diverted entirely to Central cluster, we noticed intermittent spikes in response times. we noticed internal connections failing (ie 404 errors from Redis) and with joint product team debugging determi...
    about 11 hours ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

    Stateful APIs to utilize agent/s inside my apps

    Stateful APIs to communicate with orchestrate as headless service to be able to design my own interface or utilize agent/s inside my apps the way I like.
    about 11 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

    Avoid to hard code credentials in tls.properties file to use encryption profile.

    As per discussion with IBM support team, we need to hard code keystore and trust store password in tls.properties file to use encryption profile with "REQUIRED" and "ALWAYS" options mentioned in IBM documentation - Adding an encryption profile on ...
    about 19 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

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