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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    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...
    24 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

    Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

    Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
    2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    Add STMT_HASHID2 in IFCID 316

    Can you add STMT_HASHID2 (referred in DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE) field to the IFCID 316 record? It would be very handy in identifying normalized SQL statement text(s).
    5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

    Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
    2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

    Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

    Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
    24 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

    List Dialog Assistant as Tool

    This means that the existing dialog assistant (built on Dialogues) can be integrated into a new user interface — either as: a tool (a callable component used by another agent), or an independent agent In practice, this allows legacy Dialogues-base...
    3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

    The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

    Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
    5 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

    Add a Custom URL to the Home Page

    Allow the customer to add a custom URL to the Home Page under Support.
    4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

    Prevent backend business rule code from displaying in SAP SuccessFactors UI; show only processed user-friendly data.

    Why is it useful? Currently, users see raw backend rule code (Java logic) instead of their benefit details. This creates confusion, reduces trust, and impacts usability. Who would benefit? Employees: They will see clear benefit enrollment details ...
    4 days ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 0 Submitted

    Make DBET selectable

    It would be useful in many different situations if the DBET could be read via SQL, similar to some tables in the Db2 directory.
    4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

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