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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.

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Need a utility to defragment large tables in a timely fashion when REORG is unable to reclaim space

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Large, highly volatile, tables can become heavily fragmented when there is a significant amount of daily delete and insert activity. In some cases, the rows deleted don't leave enough empty space on a page for a REORG to clean up or reclaim that s...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Future consideration

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Column and Row scroll synchronization

When there is more than one view on a PAW sheet, and either the rows or columns extend beyond the visible screen area for both views, it would be common for users to want both views to scroll simultaneously. For example, let’s say both views have ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Inactive User Designation within the UI

Raised on behalf of client: When working with inactive users there are a number of advantages to be able to see when a User select field is populated with a user who has been marked as an inactive user. We would like to be able to achieve some of ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Cyclops in the same timezone as system

We are operating on CET/CEST timezones and noticed that in query history we have times that should not exist from the period between 2025-03-30 02:00:00 and 2025-03-30 03:00:00. At 2:00 AM the clocks were pushed 1 hour forward to 3:00 AM so there ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Request for Manta Data Export Format Alignment with Alation's Native Lineage Expectations

We need confirmation on how Manta exports lineage data to Alation to ensure it matches Alation's native lineage structure. Specifically, we are requesting details on: 1. Data Format: The exact format in which Manta sends data to Alation. 2. Lineag...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Delivered

Need access control at project level of Watson Discovery

Customer will use Watson Discovery as the NLP solution. Customer has very specific requirement that group A can only see data set 1, while group B only see data set 2, but in WD, all people can see all projects (including all the files/ data) with...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Introduce a new shiny deployment option (similar to shinyapps.io)

Why don't we make a feature similar to the RStudio's "deploy to shinyapps" ability. So basically you can deploy a shiny app from your RStudio with 1 click to the cloud. Shinyapps.io is not an IBM site, may be we could introduce similar thing based...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 7 Not under consideration

PAW Welcome page folders layout sort

Entering the PAW Welcome page after login, all the Folders and/or Workbooks are defaulted to sort by Last Modified. This means each time a user logs in, folders/books are all moved around.Please allow us to set a default to sort by A-Z. This allow...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Please add rowspan and colspan as conditional style properties in list and crosstab cells

There are many times where I need to hide or show specific cells in crosstabs or lists. If I were to hide cells in the crosstab rows, other cells may cause the entire table to deform. This can be replicated quite easily by having Node 1 | Node 2--...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release