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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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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...
about 5 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enable WCA4Z to install and operate without GPU requirements for non-LLM use cases and troubleshooting scenarios.

WCA4Z currently has a hard dependency on GPU availability. The Watsonxaiifm component fails to install when GPUs are not present, which subsequently prevents a complete installation of WCABase and WCA4Z. GPU resources represent a substantial infra...
about 4 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Enhancing Performance and Latency metrics with append when you relog to MC

Useful to cross verify the latency and performance , also to keep an historical data for the benchmark , also sending the data to datadog, splunk, appdynamics or grafana these tools are being used by many clients and it will be useful to send our ...
5 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 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...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Unified and Granular Security Audit Logging for Compliance (CA, TM1, PAW)

Business Context: As an enterprise customer operating in a regulated industry, we are required to meet strict IT security audit standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR). Currently, auditing capability across the IBM Analytics stack (Cognos Analytic...
12 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted