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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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Support for persistent global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables in Db2 Data Gate for Db2 for z/OS to Db2 LUW topologies

In Db2 Data Gate topologies that replicate data from Db2 for z/OS to Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW), there is currently a functional limitation in which global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables are not supported, as documente...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 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...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

HPU Equivalent Parameter for DSNTIAUL TOLWARN(QUIET) option

Our developers were using DSNTIAUL UNLOAD JCL with these options RUN PROGRAM(DSNTIAUL) PARMS('SQL,TOLWARN(QUIET)') When they try to change their DSNTIAUL job to HPU 6.1 JCL, We saw that there is no TOLWARN(QUIET) option in HPU 6.1 https://www.ibm....
1 day ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS Submitted

Enable Mermaid Diagram Rendering in Chat Interface

We request the enhancement of IBM watsonx Orchestrate (WXO) chat interface to support native rendering of Mermaid diagrams directly within chat responses. Currently, when Mermaid syntax is included in responses, it is displayed as plain text, requ...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add a possibility to set the sender E-Mail for Sharing or Plan Notifications to be not the user who is making the action but a fixed mailbox

Currently PAW uses a method to set the sender of Share Mails or Notification Mails to the Person who was pressing the Button or Shares. This leads to that a configured Mailbox send in the Name of a User. That is per Definition actually Spoofing. A...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

PAW must natively include websheets published via PAfE - just as TM1 Web does.

Idea: Tm1Web-like websheet access has to be available in PAW "Reports and Analysis" section for users with "Consumer" role. TM1 Web enables users to access websheets (which have been published via Planning Analytics for Excel) in a hierarchical fo...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

GDPR : deletion or anonymisation of a User name after the GDPR legal retention period or following a legal GDPR request from the end-user himself.

Hi,Following the European GDPR requirements, we should allow the capability within OpenPages, to suppress or at least anonymize the end-users personal informations ( name, surname, email address, phone number, etc ...) stored within OpenPages afte...
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI Submitted

Ability to affect a particular color to the header and the tab of a TFUI in order to quickly identify it amongst many opened TFUI tabs

The customer would like to be able to affect a particular color to the tab and the header of a TFUI ( user task view ) either globally at the administrator level or locally at the user profile level, in order to be able to quickly spot on and iden...
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted

Ability to revert data in workflows

This feature will help second line easily revert data submitted to them for review
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI Submitted

Calculate Data Quality rule success rates based on the filtered/evaluated row count instead of the total underlying table row count.

A customer stores production data in a single large table and applies Data Quality rules only to specific subsets of that data by using SQL WHERE clauses. Currently, the Data Quality rule success rate appears to be calculated against the total row...
5 days ago in DataStage Submitted