IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    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...
    6 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

    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/...
    3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should support Db2 LUW databases that use a centralized KMIP keystore

    This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. Recently we converted our Db2 LUW database to use a centralized KMIP keysto...
    about 2 months ago in Db2 1 Planned for future release

    Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

    Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
    about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review

    Allow parsing of binary formats

    We do multiple integrations that require transforming binary data to XML/JSON for ingestion into SaferPayments. It would be great if we can either extend MCI processing with a custom code parser or allow defining a custom transformer, based on DFD...
    24 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

    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...
    4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

    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 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

    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

    Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

    The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 Under review

    Dynamic Runtime Template Assignment in Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning

    Feature Request: Introduce the ability for administrators to control the availability of runtime templates and environments in Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning using either for example group membership or project and space labels. Purpose...
    about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

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