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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.

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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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

Improvements for Oracle Employee Support Agents

To build upon the employee support agents released last June: Agent should ask for all parameters it needs to fulfill a user request Agent should solicit a follow up action from the user In case of failures, agent should tell user why it was...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 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...
5 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

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

OOTB support for AWS Bedrock models

Ability to select Bedrock's gpt-oss-120b, Claude Sonnet or Haiku as the model powering an agent, so that I can take advantage of the improved performance and features of those new models.
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release

Refresh list of Remote MCP tools

In the current implementation of the Remote MCP Server, the list of available tools is cached locally and does not automatically reflect updates made on the server side. This leads to inconsistencies between the actual tool availability and what i...
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release

User Access can be restricted based on AI Assistant

Today, in watsonx Assistant, clients can restrict access to Assistant Builder based on Assistant ID, Skill ID, Dialog ID. Clients can also restrict based on other criteria. More can be learned here: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/watson-assistant?topi...
11 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release

Need for CIAM Based authentication for Kafka Connectivity

For a customer their Kafka services have been migrated to Confluent, and they are now using CIAM-based authentication. As a result, all their new Kafka topics are impacted and has ceased to function. They request a need of addressing this issue in...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Planned for future release

Allow to choose which reports can be added to the panel on the shared between different lines of business dashboard

So far there are only 2 options to choose which report can be added to the panels on the dashboard: 1. all reports as a tree of all published reports 2. profile reports As soon as the profile can be shared between different lines of business, they...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Planned for future release