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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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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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Integrated Data Lineage with Design Lineage from wx.data intelligence and Operation Lineage from wx.data integration

See information in this slack. wx.data intelligence can tell them what dashboard are affected if they plan to change these tables/columns (Impact analysis) assuming they uses tools that is supported by our scanner else it will be manual. Impact an...
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Support passthrough-only expressions in native SQL on Db2 for z/OS

It has been asked for before but at the last GUIDE GSE Germany it was once again discussed. The requirement is for some, at least the REGEXP_% ones, of the passthrough-only expressions to be really supported in Db2 for z/OS native. More and more d...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Configurable attachment/version retention policy

Current DataStage/CAMS import behavior creates a new attachment/version every time assets are imported using the “replace” option. In enterprise CI/CD environments with automated deployments and shared dependencies, this quickly reaches the curren...
5 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Request to increase the 1000-Line Execution Log Limit in DataStage Anywhere

In DataStage 9, we were able to fully trace and monitor iterative processes that generated extensive log entries. Currently, the DataStage Anywhere web interface limits the execution log display to only the first 1000 lines. Full log visibility is...
5 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Automated Backup for DataStage Anywhere

Built-in scheduling for automated (non-manual) project and metadata backups. Currently this is done by a manual process of backup/restore
5 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Schedule a single job multiple times a day with different parameters via UI for DataStage Anywhere

This feature currently is supported in Datastage 8 and 9 however it is nos possible in DataStage SaaS. We require this feature to be available in the UI. The details of the scenario is described in this ticket: TS021624305. Currently there is a sh...
5 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Implement version numbering for a.o. Views, Workflows, Calculations

When transferring versions of the objects mentioned, it is important to be able to keep track of the version you are working on and want to deploy (DEV --> UAT --> PROD) and to allow tracking of the versions IN OpenPages and not outside Open...
5 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Enable to store user-uploaded files in customer-owned Cloud Object Storage (COS) buckets with strict logical segregation by user or tenant.

Customer requires full control over file storage to meet internal compliance and data sovereignty standards. Currently, user-uploaded files are stored in shared IBM-managed COS environments, which raises concerns around data ownership, isolation, ...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enable administrators to strictly control and allowlist which knowledge sources (e.g., vector stores, file uploads, web search, third-party connectors) agents can use for grounding.

Enterprises require the ability to tightly govern what data sources agents can access for grounding responses to ensure compliance, security, and data residency requirements. Currently, Watsonx Orchestrate allows agents to connect to various knowl...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Easy replication of Canvas Templates

To enable all objects of a certain type (e.g. Process, Risk etc.), it would be extremely beneficial to allow applying a canvas template to a bulk selection of these objects. Also, it would help to be able to export and import Canvas Templates betw...
5 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Planned for future release