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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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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.

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Import/Export Data Module json specification in Data Module editor

For some use cases it would be beneficial to be able to import and export the Data Module specification not only via REST API but within the Data Module editor: professional modelers can generate their Data Module specifications in external tools,...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

MDI Job to eliminate System tables

So when we run an MDI Job by selecting all the Schemas available in the Connected Data Source, after the MDI Completes the Job status gets failed & when we try to troubleshoot by navigating into the Job we can see it is failed due to of System...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

current_date or current_timestamp Cognos Functions Enhancement to enable Query to be re-used for DQM mode

When current_date or current_timestamp is used, query reuse is disabled since the values for those functions would need to be cached to allow reuse. Since the cashed value might not be the same as the current value it is considered a data integrit...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Integrate Langflow as a Native Feature in watsonx.ai

Folowing IBM’s acquisition of DataStax, integrating Langflow as a native feature within watsonx.ai would unlock powerful new capabilities for AI development. Langflow provides a visual, modular interface for building and orchestrating LLM workflow...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Is there any way to give permissions to only check logs and see jobs in designer and director for Datastage & Quality stage super operator?

IBM DataStage & Quality stage super operator (Super Operator and Operator): users the ability to run and schedule jobs, view full job logs, and view jobs and objects using the Director and Designer clients, respectively for the above User role...
6 months ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

InfoSphere Data Replication should continue support on - Ubuntu - one of the most popular linux distro

Currently IBM CDC 11.3 is supported on ubuntu 22.x, 24.x etc. However 11.3 is going to be end of support by sep-2025 while ubuntu is not found in 11.4 supported OS list. It is a big shock to existing to us, especially for customer who needs to upg...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Sorting large amounts of data sequentially

We executed a query where a large amount of data had to be sorted. The execution stopped with SQLCODE -904 (temp. storage exceeded). This query was executed with DEGREE 1. When we executed the same query with DEGREE ANY, the query was executed by ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ease call, edit, debug, and monitor OPL / CPLEX models within DSX

OPL is a much simpler way than Python for optimization modeling and today we provide only https://twitter.com/AlexFleischer1/status/909759411484274689 . If we had a simpler way OPL / CPLEX customers could move their models to DSX and DSX data scie...

Option 12 panel (Change Capture Agent IP address) needs to allow for unplanned change of IP addresses

The current process for clients utilizing the Option 12 panel (Change Capture Agent IP address and TCP port for z/OS) requires that Replication be stopped in a controlled manner prior to updating the IP addresses. This process does not allow for d...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Non-disruptive add column not null with no default

Currently, the conversion of a new NOT NULL column without default at the end of a table is done via an UNLOAD / DROP / CREATE / LOAD A content (default) is generated for the column during the unload in order to be able to load this column afterwa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered