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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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Suppress Static Subset Copy Message in Planning Analytics

Whenever Dynamic Subsets are used in SUBNM Formulas in Websheets in PAW books, a message pops up "Static Copy required". When using the SUBNM with a MDX Subset, the User drills up or down in the Hierarchy while selecting. When he selects any me...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Improving the saved search functionality in Watson Discovery Content Miner to better support usability for larger user groups

Background: In our organization, we anticipate that approximately 100 users will be actively actively working with the Watson Discovery Content Mining application. Each user is expected to create and maintain around 2 saved searches, resulting in ...
8 months ago in Watson Discovery Submitted

Keep and maintain at least 2 or 3 Python and R runtime versions in each release of CP4D

Multiple companies and industries work with CP4D for data science models. These models use multiple versions of Python or R runtimes and different open-source libraries that are compatible with the runtime version used to build the model. Clients ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai Not under consideration

Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
6 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS Planned for future release

UI Improvements to Participant Directory Dropdowns to validate full 9 digit entry for Receiving Point, Sender, SECO, and RECO fields

Limit errors and mistakes on the Partner screens.
24 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services Submitted

Add ability to export report from Control Center Audit Report screen for rows returned along with their Audit Details

This will provide easier access to the information for the users without having to access the screens and click into the details of each item.
24 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services Submitted

Protection against viruses or malwares in files submitted in flows

In wxO, we can request to the user to upload a file that can be analysed by Orchestrate. For instance, Document Extractor and Text Extractor are proposed in the Flow Builder. In any flow that uses one of these components or imports a file from a u...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review
206 VOTE

Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Not under consideration

Reorg rebalance should be possible for tables with XML column

Reorg rebalance should be possible for tables with XML column: We have some very big XML tables with 200 partitions, wich are growing very fast and not really equally in each partition. After some time we have partitions, where are 3 times more ro...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Under review

DB2 Purescale with Secure Linux Boot on RHEL enabled: should ship already signed IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) kernel modules

Customer needs that Secure boot is enabled and it is not possible in any Purescale Version. We opened case TS018965073 for this issue and said that to be enabled Secureboot means to sign GPFS packages and involve several support teams
10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale Not under consideration