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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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Enhance PAW User Administration "Download Users into CSV File" to Include Capabilities

The Administration / Users and Groups --> Download users into a csv file, should be enhanced to include additional details such as capabilities assignments to enable validation of users access rights for a multi environment configuration as we ...
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

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

Implement OAUTH with mTLS

We want to implement an improvement in OAUTH authentication with the introduction of mTLS (multual TLS). New security requirements and implementations in communication with external APIs between different companies with open communication on the i...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

Improve IBM Controller Excel timeout experience

Current Challenge When IBM Controller Excel times out, users face two issues: Closing the logon pop-up triggers an error (see screenshot "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"). Attempting to log on again without restarting Ex...
about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

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, ...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

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

Add a File Size column to the knowledge documents list

Currently, in Knowledge → Manage knowledge → Documents, the interface lists all uploaded files but does not show their file size, even though the size is already returned by the backend API (file_size field inside each document’s metadata). Displa...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Manta SAS Lineage | Support for "SYMPUT" in SAS routine

The call of the SAS routine SYMPUT (call symput) in the SAS codes is being ignored by the Manta analyzer, resulting in null values getting assigned to the macro variables used in the call statement. There are instances of these variables being use...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Open Comments field on PAW Book Properties

Allow admins to capture developer related details on a PAW book that would help with support
8 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted