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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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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...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Controller Web import specifications must allow the reuse of a column for different field definitions to avoid customers having to produce duplicate columns

In the version 11.1.1100.47 and forwards it is not possible for in import specification created in Controller Web, to re-use a column in a file 2 or more times for a field in the import spec. This was possible in previous versions. The fact that t...
13 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Needs more information

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...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

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

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...
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Informational reconcilation rule

In IBM Controller shall be enhanced with a capability that allows non‑blocking plausibility checks to be executed as part of the consolidation workflow, including all stages of the reconciliation process. These checks are designed to identify unus...
13 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

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

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...
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release