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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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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)
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

Support for Multi-Factor Authentication

Using a multi-factor authentication account (RSA token) when creating and configuring a shared repository and relational data source causes the user account to lock due to too many attempts using invalid credentials. Please implement support for M...
7 months ago in QMF for z/OS 3 Under review

Allow for custom auroralogging.properties file to define custom loggers that aren't overwritten by upgrades/fix packs/interim fixes

When implementing custom loggers we have to place these in the auroralogging.properties file. This works great until the file gets re-created during the installation of upgrades, fix packs or interim fixes. We would like a custom auroralogging.pro...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

Enable gRPC endpoints with Satellite in watsonx.data SaaS

If a client wants to connect to watsonx.data on-prem from a IBM cloud application with private links, they need to use IBM Satellite in order to do this. However, Satellite does NOT support gRPC endpoints, only HTTP/S and few other options. watson...
7 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

CDC Agent support HA/cluster by product itself.

In banking production environment, CDC agent are often across multi platform for different database, and CDC HA solution have to depend on different technology tightly with OS and different OS version, such as AIX, Linux. and the HA stack is often...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Ability to interrupt export process to Alation

(opened as a side-effect of production incident TS020891437) Background: When Manta uploads lineage to Alation, it starts a thread on the MantaFlow server process. This is unlike extraction and analysis processes wheere there are seperate processe...
26 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

View Selector

Any plans to have this option persist after the setting is changed? Currently, the setting reverts to off after selecting it.
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Mobile app integration and functionality

Agentic understanding of the user environment including mobile functionality and intuitive-ness.
27 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

Improve visibility of choosen access path after rebind

We are using Db2 AI for z/OS with and without validation of the provided optimizations in SQL Optimization.For the option "with validation" you can see in the details table from the improvement which access path would be choosen after the rebind.I...
7 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Notification for Jobs in Activating or Deactivating After an Amount of Time

Control Hub Subscriptions events that would be the closest to monitoring this would be a Job Status Change. The job statuses Activating and Deactivating themselves are necessary and we would not want a notification every time a job went to these s...
9 months ago in StreamSets 5 Future consideration