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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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Add JDBC Property "localBindAddress"

Remote Connections to a DB should only be allowed from specific source IPs. However, we do have multiple network interfaces in our UNIX environments (AIX, Linux). With MySQL and PostgreSQL, we can use the property localSocketAddress [1] [2] to cho...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Control data mapping into Read Only fields (Fields that are read only due to calculations)

Currently, when a field was made read only due to calculation ( ie.. Using the field in the set operation of a calculation), When we use fastmap to load data into that field, it can't be overridden. This seems to be accurate from a perspective tha...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Resolve issues relating to quantum entangled action buttons in PAfE

Currently if I have an Excel sheet with action buttons on and I duplicate the sheet into the same workbook then to all visible cues we end up with two action buttons (AB). I can see two action buttons, one on each sheet and I can see them listed s...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability to display pop-up message while moving from one workflow stage to another

IBM OpenPages native workflow capability allow users to configure a workflow for several business use-cases (e.g. RCSA). User can setup different stages (e.g. Scoping, Risk Assessment etc.) and setup actions to move from one stage to another. Work...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Design canvas features for PAW sheets

At present, Planning Analytics Workspace allows the user to include design elements, such as images and videos, in reports, but the lack of several basic features of common design tools like Adobe Illustrator make it unwieldy to create highly-desi...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

AD - New feature to broadcast message to analyze client users.

Currently AD has no facility to broadcast notification alert to user's community, instead we usually send information to application discovery users via email distributions. This idea is about introducing new feature to notify maintenance alerts w...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Documentation request - Changes that invalidate packages

Documentation request - Changes that invalidate packages This is a great document and I refer to it often when planning production changes. I'd like to see it enhanced so here's a few suggestions. 1) Make the titles for the objects BOL...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Openpages - Workflow - Multiple Approvals for one stage.

We have a requirement for Risk Approval Workflow to get approval from Multiple Asignees. Example: For a particular Risk record, owners would be identified, Owners is a multi user field at risk object and the number of owners is Dynamic, it can ran...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Future consideration

Build client virtual folder sort order correction(6.1.3)

After adding files from mainframe, the virtual folder files are sorted based on the member name of different PDSEs but it's not based on the sorted order of both PDSE and members together. Good to have them sorted based on both so it would be easy...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Reorg discards with PARTITION range for PBR

we are using PBR with multiple partitions per month. We perform reorg discards with PARTITION range like 1: 4. But discarded data is going to a single file when do the discards with range partition. example: We would like to get the first-part dat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration