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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Trash Bin Button for User in First Workflow/Collab Area Step

To enhance the user experience in the collaboration area, we propose adding a feature that allows users to cancel or delete their request autonomously during the first step, when creating the item in the collaboration area. Currently, the trash bi...
about 1 month ago in Product Master Future consideration

VERIFY scalar function

I do have a column with invalid data select * from table where verify(name,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÆØ0123456789')>0 the 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÆØ0123456789' is the chars that is valid in the column that can be x number of chars the sel...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Alert mechanism for Scheduled Task (failures at-least)

Why useful? The absence of monitoring allows the issues to go undetected, exposing the business to avoidable operational, financial, and reputational risk. Who would benefit? Anyone who is using Scheduled Task to run critical jobs. How should it w...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets Submitted

Readable Error messages that make sense to end-user

Requirement: All error messages appearing on chat screen should be readable to the end user. Error messages should be accurate so that the user is able to make sense of why the error is occurring in the first place, and can take appropriate co...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add Support of CDDS to Log Reader Stored Procedure

Expectedly, supporting CDDS requires an isolated small code change that would substantially improve stability and performance of dealing with IFI 306.
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

use LM_PROJECT to make relationship between jobs & licenses

make robust relationship between jobs & licenses, easing reporting/monitoring & helping License Scheduler to manage corresponding resources.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management Under review

Add support for SAP HANA technology in OpenLineage Events

While scanning OpenLineage event JSON that includes SAP HANA assets, Manta successfully generates lineage but incorrectly classifies SAP HANA tables as generic OpenLineage (OL) nodes instead of database table nodes. This results in: Incorrect vi...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

SQLDI Install Enhancements

The SQLDI install process needs to be enhanced to cater for separation of duty responsibilities, and it must not make assumptions about the config it is being installed in to. The following enhancements are required: 1. The install currently check...
about 1 month ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Submitted

Default value for a field gets removed after each upgrade.

Is it possible to implement a mechanism in the upgrade process that compares the target environment’s configuration with the upgrade package to identify any deviations from the out-of-the-box configuration? If differences are detected, the package...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages Submitted

Reduce size of pop-up that informs when a process is running or make movable

When running a process, the pop-up that appears (to inform user the process is still running and remains in position) often blocks areas of screen requiring accessibility. the pop-up can be closed but then the user loses visibility of process stil...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted