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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Cloud Pak for Data Rolling Openshift Updates

We want to be able to run rolling openshift updates below the Cloud Pak for Data Platform without downtime. We have a prod cluster with 3 nodes on three machines, so the platform should be 24x7 available. Our working hours are 8:00 to 16:00, but t...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

CP4D documentation must be available outside cloud.ibm.com

Citi considers cloud.ibm.com as SaaS website and restricts it internally. Unfortunately, most of CP4D documentation are only available in cloud.ibm.com. Especially API commands. Please make it available in the official Cloud Pak for Data documenta...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Centralized and queryable monitoring logs and alerts for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Currently, error identification and log analysis in IBM Data Gate for watsonx are difficult and inefficient. Errors may occur without appearing in the Event tab or any centralized monitoring interface. During multiple PoC/POT activities, troublesh...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Table-level synchronization monitoring for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Today, IBM Data Gate for watsonx exposes only generic monitoring information (e.g., inserted rows, updated rows) at a global level, without visibility into synchronization status per database or table. This makes it difficult for customers to: Val...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Efficient ingestion with equality deletes and automated optimization to vector deletes for Iceberg tables for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Bradesco recognizes that generating vector deletes directly within IBM Data Gate for watsonx is not feasible, as it would require read-after-write operations and significantly degrade synchronization performance. To solve this, we propose a two-st...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Actionable error handling and troubleshooting guidance for known limitations for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

When synchronization errors occur due to known limitations (e.g., FIELDPROC, RRF, or other restrictions), IBM Data Gate for watsonx currently exposes generic error messages that complicate troubleshooting. In some cases, lack of proper handling ha...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Table-level error handling for batch load operations for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Today, when executing batch load operations across multiple tables, if a single table encounters an error or limitation, IBM Data Gate for watsonx fails the entire batch silently, without generating errors or events. This results in: No tables bei...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

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

Building Reliable flows with Orchestration Pipelines

When working with data pipelines , failures can occur at multiple stages due to network disruptions, database outages, or incorrect transformations. Enterprise environments requires reliability, since some pipelines can be used to mission-critical...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data 1 Functionality already exists

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 2 Under review