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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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Add the option to pick the document language and support table and image extraction

This proposal addresses a critical need for expanding the document ingestion capabilities of our product, which is particularly relevant to our clients with non-English data. Currently, our UDI feature is limited to an English-only OCR model. This...

Use the engines of the lakehouse in Git integrated projects

We have an instance of watsonx.data in CP4D, installed on Openshift in Azure Cloud. Within watsonx.data we have buckets representing azure containers within a Azure Blob storage. In projects that are integrated with Git, when we need to configure ...

AVRO messages should have an AVRO response for consistency with the rest of formats.

All the response formats to incoming messages in MCI,KMI, etc. are in the same as the input, so xml will be responded as xml, json will respond json, and so on except AVRO. For AVRO incoming messages the response provided by Safer Payments is XML ...
6 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Model creation with data not empty selection by default

There is an error for computation of IRF if the model has been trained with empty values data. We would like that by default only records with non empty values that are selected for model generation should be used for training IRF.
6 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Mutual TLS/SSL for the AVRO Schema Registry Connection

Currently, the connection to the AVRO Schema Registry supports SSL/TLS connection but not mutual, using client certificates or other ways to authenticate the client system. It should be possible, the same way it is for the rest of connections, MCI...
6 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

A Github integration ensures enterprise-grade governance, automation, and agility for data engineering workflows. By leveraging GitHub and LevelUp tooling, clients gain robust version control, rollback capabilities, and automated testing/deployment for pipelines and DAGs. It reduces operational risk, accelerates delivery, and aligns with modern DevOps practices.

Large enterprise clients like AT&T, who manage complex data pipelines across hybrid environments, will benefit from streamlined CI/CD processes, improved security, and consistent governance across services. How should it work? GitHub Integra...

Clicking the logo/server-name a few times shouldn't reload API include files

clicking the logo/server-name a few times reload API files with users having cluster edit permission. we need to remove that feature for all users, since Maintenance function already exists (reload API include files).
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

License Scheduler - Minimum Preemption Time

It's been observed when the license scheduler preempts a job to free up license resources, the job can occasionally be resumed within 1-2 seconds if license features are freed up during that time. This leads to behavior where processes do not prop...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Functionality already exists

Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release