IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    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...
    2 months 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...
    2 months ago in StreamSets 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...
    2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    Db2 should be able to run in OpenShift within the limits of the restricted-v2 SCC

    As of today, Db2 requires certain privileged SCC capabilities for running in OpenShift as described in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1?topic=security-manually-creating-scc-service-account-role-role-binding Basically the customer can choose be...
    12 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Container 0

    Pipelines in Next Gen DataStage requires compilation in a protected environment ( Production environment )

    Next Gen DataStage: At present, pipelines require compilation in a protected environment (Production). This process updates the last modified date on the log, which raises concerns about tracking changes and identifying what modifications were int...
    3 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

    Issue an appropriate message instead of a dump in case of 00E20015 occurrence

    A clear DSN... message indicating the problem ASCB is more helpful than a dump. The asid (in R2) could be already another ASCB, so this is ambiguous. The dump could be supressed in my opinion. We have such a lot of cases in which we are forced to ...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Watsonx.ai BYOM support more model framework

    As more LLM models being released, our clients wonder if we can support more LLM frameworks. To be more specific: Llama 4 Maverick 400 B 4bit / Deepseek 671B 4bit, Llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v1, InternVL-3-38B, jina-embeddings-v3 I understand w...
    10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

    Python notebook support checkpoint for deep learning training

    Our Watsonx.ai has built-in Python notebook for machine learning or deep learning development. As more use cases now train based on deep learning, our client wonder if it is possible to add auto (or some semi-auto) check point helping deep learnin...
    10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

    Add a server name to the wording "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration"

    Each time a server reboots, it sends out an email message with the subject "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration." We have multiple instances of Cognos and it would be nice to know which server is sending out this message. Is there a way to ...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

    Possibility to check object state on HADR standby without ROS

    Unfortunatelly some people on our HADR systems do deployments for which we are forced to set BLOCKNONLOGGED off (it's normally on on all systems). This may cause (depending on what they do) that objects on HADR standby become "destroyed" because t...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

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