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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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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.

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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...
5 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

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...
5 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
4 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Automated Monitoring and Recovery for Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service

Description Currently, the Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service requires manual monitoring and restarting through Controller Web. There is no alert mechanism to notify stakeholders when the service stops due to errors, resulting in a highly m...
4 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Handling multiple locations of backups

Current limit allows for only 32 paths to be provided for running a restore. That is a problem if full backups and all the differential ones are run in multiple streams and in different paths. For example you have a full backup in 16 streams and t...
about 14 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Need UI feature through which the CP4D administrator can create and manage guaranteed resources pool(s) for high priority workload based on label selectors

CP4D customers (RBC in this case) have many users working on the platform to create various jobs, tasks and different types of AI/ML workload on daily basis. Some of these projects have higher priority and more strict timelines than others, wherea...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Handling commas in RDS codes

When uploading codes with commas in the code, the RDS will export with \\ to manage the comma. The \\ need to be replaced with a double quote to align with csv formatting best practices.
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Paintbrush format tool for dashboards/UI

Saves time, simply format once and appy brush.
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data 1 Functionality already exists

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...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 Under review