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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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We need Data replication: Change Data Capture to intergrate for AWS RDS Oracle database.

Currently, me have to replicate the data from AWS RDS Oracle to a secondary database so that Infosphere can replicate the data. We have to replicate the data twice. We want to be able to connect directly to AWS RDS Oracle database so that we do no...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

DQ Uniqueness Check during MDE by Specifying PKs on UI

We'd like to have an out of the box uniqueness DQ check (for metadata enrichment) to validate the primary key (may be composite) marked by the user when enriching the data asset.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Idea - Initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription

To Add an Option / Auto to initiate a Refresh on Table withAdd an option to initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription We replicate data from Db2 to Oracle/Kafka and vice versa and we need a zero downtime replication pipe and at...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Can't create a nickname on a table containing a STRUCT datatype

Can'create a nickname on a DRDA table containing a geospatial column . Problem description and business impact Using DB2 ESE 10.5 FP8 (and the Spatial Extender component) on Redhat 7.2, I can't create a column on a DRDA remote table containing the...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Get WKC Metadata in Cognos Reports/Dashboards and during Design

Can we (me and the customers I am working for) have the following possibility: while using Cognos during both Design of Reports and Dashboards, but also during usage (End-Users!), they must have an understanding of the underlying data source and a...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

support additional content types: octet, plain text, multi form

Description of the specific solution idea: Ability to support additional media types: multipart/form application/octet-stream text/plain What are the top risks associated with this idea: Value Usability Feasibility - need to understand effort and ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Functionality already exists

DB2 Regions creating a lot of messages for AB/S004E SYSTEM ABEND CODE: 004E in LOGREC

It was reported thru GTIECSMFDB-10132 on both the SDPLEX and SBPLEX that the DB2 regions are producing thousands of error messages in the System Logrec for AB/S004E SYSTEM ABEND CODE: 004E each day. The following error messages are filling up the ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Setting the data type in the data asset node of Modeler Flow

When handling numeric data in CSV, values with a large number of digits are judged to be invalid records because they fall outside the Int32 range. From the customer's point of view, this data itself is not abnormal, and there are cases where the...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Ability to expand a Package and manipulate the items within that Package when added to a Data Module

In Cognos Analytics you have the ability to add a Package to a Data Module.It would be useful if we could expand the Package down to its Namespaces/Dimensions/Query Subjects/Query Items.Having the package expanded could mean that users would have ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Federated AI for Secure Multi-Enterprise Collaboration

Why Is It Useful? In many industries, organizations hold valuable data that could collectively improve AI models—such as for fraud detection, disease diagnosis, or supply chain optimization—but data privacy, regulations, and competitive concerns p...
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review