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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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Need IDAA on z to support dynamic routing

We need the IDAA on z LPAR to have the ability to support dynamic routing. When connecting to z/OS LPARs on the same CEC using Hipersockets and OSA cards, IDAA is unable to determine the proper route to send data back to z/OS.
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

The search bar on the catalog should show exactly matched contents only

***This is an idea about the search bar on the catalog.*** ***This is not an idea about the black search bar on top of the CP4D WEB console window.*** <Background> User register some Business Terms and Tags using Japanese language in the C...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Sort from one menu

We can sort by column by "Sort ascending" or "Sort descending" on Operation menu.(Fig.1)But when we would like to sort data by multiple column, we need to use arrange function on the box there is "Code an operation...". (Fig.2)So we would like to ...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 2 Planned for future release

Include Summary Row in CSV and Excel Data exports

Normally .csv and excel data exports are used only for "data dumping" but some business users have reported a use case for exporting reports in these formats for import to Sharepoint where the Summary data cannot be aggregated, it must be provided...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for a Jira connector

A Public/Federal customer requires a built-in Jira connector for the on-prem Cloud Pak for Data platform. The Jira connector is requested in support of migrating 8 application workloads onto the platform. Eight distinct use cases can be migrated o...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Allow to call Lookup Service Provider using Data Store Alias

No description provided
over 9 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Delivered

Executing skills without user action

There could be a need to execute certain skills without needing the user to click on 'Apply'. Example could be I have a custom skill to upload a file and some input values. Data extracted from the file needs to be uploaded to Box or sent via email...
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Add Readonly Database Connection Support

It would be beneficial to have a readonly connection when accessing the database from third party software. Many products provide the ability to connect via JDBC but they also have the ability to make changes. Example LibreOffice Base can be setup...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow the ability to set the management, storage, and data classes the SPUFI panels.

We have a security policy requiring us to encrypt all possible 'Data at Rest'. We use the IBM solution called Pervasive Encryption (PE). Our storage team has defined SMS Data Classes that can be used to allocate encrypted datasets. In order ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow more the 40 characters in a "Label" when creating a new Panel in the Dashboard

Some of our data is very specific, and we need to be more explanatory in the panel labels
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered