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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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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...
4 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

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

Multi-language support for agentic workflows

Be able to automatically translate the output of an agentic workflow (text extractions, display message, forms, etc.) to the user original language. Right now, we have no full multilingual capacity other than creating a different agentic workflow ...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Planned for future release

Increase Limit for processing LOB values

We want to use the new OAM S3 interface. But we are hitting the limit of 50GB for processing LOB values.This results in errors with Resource unavailable and REASON 00C900D2.Before V12 there were two zParms LOBVALA and LOBVALS which could be set to...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Validation of DB2 pre-requisites for DB2 AI for z/OS maintenance

When a DB2 AI for z/OS APAR requires APAR from DB2/zOS as pre-requisites, it is desirable to include in the DB2zAI hold data a job to verify if the DB2/zOS pre-requisites have been installed. Otherwise the DB2zAI software upgrade could be complete...
17 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Set expiration date for API Key

Set expiration date for API Key. It would be nice to be able to set an expiration date or let it not expire.
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Extract lineage for SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)

Our organization uses SAP BW to store data. We do not have a method to extract data lineage from it. The ASK: Add support for data lineage for SAP BW
2 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

upload/download feature for List within the model in AD

This is regarding an import or export feature for Lists (within the model). Previously we were using Risk Lists (on the Monitoring tab) and that has the capability to both upload and download its contents which made our weekly refresh and monthly ...
3 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Better dbaccess output formats

CSV output, or at at least tabular output with headings would be appreciated A "quiet" or "errors only" mode would also be good, as too many times errors get lost because stderr was sent to /dev/null, because most of the things dbaccess writes t...
3 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted