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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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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,

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  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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Activity log should also show the users role in addition to their name

For audit purposes the activity log should show what was the role of the person when they published (or performed any other registered activity). It is possible they could have several roles which all would allow them to perform the said action, a...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Activity log should retain persons name (and ID) even after that persons has left the company

Activity log is used for audit purposes. At the moment if a user has left the company, then activity log will show "deactivated user" instead of the name. This breaks the audit trail. While improving this you should also add unique identifier for ...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Support Oracle lineage extraction in Data Guard read-only environments without requiring primary database access

DESCRIPTION Many enterprise Oracle environments use Oracle Data Guard architectures where governance and metadata tools are allowed to access only read-only standby databases, while direct access to production primary databases is restricted. Curr...
8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Under review

Enable a parallel text chat stream while using the voice experience, allowing users to see the conversation in real time while interacting via voice

Currently, when voice mode is enabled in watsonx Orchestrate, the user enters a voice-only interaction that behaves like a phone call with the virtual agent. During this experience, the textual conversation is not visible in real time within the c...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Expand IBM Manta / IKC metadata harvesting support to cover PBIP (Power BI Project) format and additional Tableau file formats (.hyper, .tde, .twbr)

IBM Manta and IKC currently support metadata harvesting and lineage stitching for Power BI .pbix files and Tableau formats .twb, .twbx, .tds, .tdsx. Two gaps were identified during a client engagement with Bradesco (Brazil): 1. Power BI — PBIP for...
30 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Under review

Add New Option MODE(REBIND) support to DSNTIJRT

Please see Case # TS021869500 for complete details. Essentially an IBM-Supplied trigger DSNIBMTS.CONNECTINFOCONSTRAINT is delivered by DSNTIJRT. This object has existed well before Db2 v11. The DSNTIJPE reports (REPORT05 and REPORT06) for Db2 V12,...
29 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Add SQL pushdown support for DB2 for z/OS connector in DataStage NextGen

Flows using the db2zos connector compile and run purely as px-runtime OSH with no pushdown. ELT mode does not support db2zos, so no predicate or transformation is pushed into DB2 for z/OS. All data is extracted to the parallel engine before any fi...
17 days ago in DataStage Under review

First-class way to represent externally executed enterprise actions

Enterprise agents often should not execute directly. They should decide, then delegate execution to governed systems like BAW, Decisions, ITSM, ERP, or partner platforms. This could be enabled by supporting an delegated/no-op tool concept which th...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

SSH certificate for DB2 Purescale user authentication

Our customer has a DB2 Purescale environment configred, that was configured by default with ssh keys per product specification. But per Customer requirements, they need to replace ssh keys with ssh certificates, but DB2 does not currently test or ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / pureScale Under review