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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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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

Permit resizing individual columns (especially in the New Transformer)

In general, all stages that offer editing the input and output columns have a difficulty of displaying the full information and there seems to be no way to resize the display of individual columns. The default space seems even more narrow than nec...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

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
233 VOTE

Bursting reports with email notification

Would like the ability to burst PAW reports as PDF.Would like the ability to burst PAX reports as Excel Slice, Excel Snap-shot or PDF.eg. TM1 Perspectives Print Report featureWith added email notifications and ability to email burst reports by rea...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

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

Mutual TLS/SSL for the AVRO Schema Registry Connection

Currently, the connection to the AVRO Schema Registry supports SSL/TLS connection but not mutual, using client certificates or other ways to authenticate the client system. It should be possible, the same way it is for the rest of connections, MCI...
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical Under review

Install TM1py directly on PA Cloud

Currently, the IBM policy does not allow installation of third-party applications on the IBM cloud servers. TM1py is a robust, proven, application-specific, community-supported python library that should be allowed as an exception to this rule. Th...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Back Navigation with Data Persistence on Multi‑Step Flow Form

The system shall provide a Back button on Flow Form 2 that allows users to navigate back to the previous form (Form 1). When the user clicks the Back button on Form 2, the application shall return the user to Form 1. All data previously entered on...
13 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Support for Restricting Specific Command Options with values

Currently, the commands.json configuration supports restricting command options only when they are specified without associated values. It does not support restricting options that include values (e.g., -u all in bjobs). This limitation prevents s...
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Submitted

Support for User Groups in user Field of esecurity.json

Currently, the user field in the esecurity.json configuration only supports individual usernames and does not allow specifying user groups. This limitation makes it difficult to manage access control efficiently in environments with a large number...
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Submitted