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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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Enhance MON_GET_TRANSACTION_LOG to return Transaction Log number of OLDEST_TX_LSN and the Transaction log number of the minbuflsn recovery information returned by db2pd -dirtypages

Enhance MON_GET_TRANSACTION_LOG to return Transaction Log number of OLDEST_TX_LSN and the Transaction log number of the minbuflsn recovery information returned by db2pd -dirtypages. For example when trying to identify the reason for the First Acti...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

PAW Cubeviewer: Asymmetric calculations

PAW cubeviewer introduced "on the fly" calculation within the cubeview. However these calculation only works in symetric mode which means that we can't cross specific elements of several dimensions to create calculation. A simple example in financ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

AD - Support for GSAM file usage

My customer programs use GSAM for file access so that programs can use checkpoint restart. The files accessed via GSAM are not shown as files on the call-graph. Nor are they shown as IMS databses. Same as the Ideas below. https://ideas.ibm.com/ide...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Ability to preview entire file in Drive Explorer

Currently, there is no method of opening and previewing the entire file without them being downloaded. In order to troubleshoot and search files for a particular customer, or invoice, or category code etc the files have to be downloaded each time,...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to copy a file in Drive Explorer into the same folder

We copy files on a regular basis on the shared drive in the Rich Tier/RDP as we don't want to overwrite the original file. It simply puts copy at the end of the name and then we can rename it if needed. Currently the drive explorer only allows you...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to edit files in Drive Explorer

We open and edit files on a regular basis on the shared drive in the Rich Tier/RDP as certain files may cause and error. Those files are then opened and modified to correct the error, or in some cases the file is copied and parts of the file is sa...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Provide Detailed Information for "Date Modified" in Properties of a Report

Currently the Properties of a Report have a field called "Date Modified" and according to the website from IBM below this field is updated under various conditions and "modified" is not the best description of those conditions. The website advises...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In 4GL, provide ability to read/write to text files in the local file system

Provide ability directly in 4GL to read and/or write data to plain text files, located on the programs local file system.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

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...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Update GUI to allow scripting-out of GUI actions

In our organization we are not allowed to do manual changes in Production using GUI, all changes have to be scripted, added to the version-management repository, tested in pre-Prod, and executed as a script, this way they are repeatable, auditable...
about 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration