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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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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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For IBMi SYSTOOLS.DELETE_OLD_SPOOLED_FILES, add number of spool files deleted when Preview => NO

Current implementation deletes spool files but user does not know how many. Would be helpful to return a result for this execution. Similar might be done for deleting old journal receivers.
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools Submitted

Universal Reports Alias

Users would like to bring aliases instead of an element name in rows selectors and columns in a universal report.
5 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support for integrations with Splunk and DataDog

This would be used to search, monitor, analyze, and visualize machine-generated big data in real time.
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Request for Built-in Read-Only Role in Cognos Analytics

We request the introduction of a built-in read-only role in Cognos Analytics 12.x (similar to the Consumer role in older versions of Cognos) that provides read and execute permissions without allowing edit or delete actions. While this requirement...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Dynamic runtime alteration of LLM configs (temperature, reasoning effort, etc)

Can we have more control over how a supervisor agent assembles its message to its collaborators? We'd like to be able to make this more consistent so there is less variance in the user experience and results can be more easily replicated. I've att...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Change default settings for a few retry parameters to LSF proxyd

job submission contacts LSF proxyd to get token, this communication may fail for whatever reason but LSF proxyd provided following three retry tunings.LSF_PROXYD_TOKEN_WAIT_TIME LSF_PROXYD_NTRIES LSF_PROXYD_NOTOKEN_NTRIES Qualcomm would like to se...
5 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Submitted

End to end translation of major languages from all types of media in near-real time.

As commerce, military, and technology integration grows across nations, the need for an all-in-one service is very high.
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Incremental/Delta Processing for Large Document Updates in UDI Flows

UDI flows currently reprocess an entire document when any change is detected — even a single line edit. For documents with hundreds or thousands of pages, this means every page is re-chunked, re-enriched, re-embedded, and re-stored in Milvus, rega...

Support for Multiple URLs for Cloud PAK for Data

Currently only one "main" URL is supported for Cloud PAK for data. We want to give an external partner access to cloud pak for Data, because this partner should develop for us. To be able to expose cloud pak for data to the web we have to do three...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Implement the same logic for TERMINATE Connection as for CREATE Connection (PH67087)

We want to tune our MAXDBAT values based on workload related DBAT processing. But currently the counters like QDSTHWAT are overloaded by the TERMINATE connection processing. For CREATE Connection ther eis already an APAR which solves this problem ...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted