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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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Cobol Scanner should recover when *, identification Area is present in column 72 of COBOL code

At my organization, some COBOL programs in production import copybooks, and those copybooks may themselves include other copybooks. For example, the program flow might look like: olila12p.cob → DPBAUTW0.cpy → DPSINSCC.cpy However, the Manta COBOL ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Add Support for Confluent JSON Schema in Kafka Stages

Only Avro is currently supported. Even if the data is read as text and the magic byte is removed and the text is transformed into JSON, the Kafka producer cannot serialize the JSON back to the Confluent JSON schema.
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Column Customization and Filtering on the Business Term Page

Our customer would like to view fields such as “Data Owner” as columns on the Business Term page and filter based on this information. Therefore, it is suggested to make the grid structure customizable (e.g., adding/removing columns, adjusting vis...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Monitoring role for CDC Subscriptions: Check Subscription Status without table level access

This idea is for DB2 for Z/OS as Source in IIDR CDC replication environment At present, the IIDR CDC Management Console and CHCCLP scripts allow status check on CDC subscriptions only if mainframe user used to connect to DB2 on Z/OS datastore has ...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Feature enhancement to monitor object detection models.

Openscale allows us to monitor the quality of machine learning models for classification, regression, and time series.There is a valuable opportunity to extend its capabilities to include monitoring and explainability for object detection models. ...
about 2 years ago in Openscale 0 Not under consideration

Missing Prompt Functionality

When creating a new report using a "Data Module" as the data source, some prompt options are missing. This is a known issue under APAR PI87294 MISSING "SELECT & SEARCH" AND "TREE PROMPT" IN PROMPTING SECTIONUSING DATA MODULE TO CREATE A REPORT
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Make options in context menu in datasource pane from packages available in datamodules

If a user makes a right-click on a column in the data source pane in Report Studio, then the context menus differ depending if it's a package or a datamodule. The menu of a datamodule is much shorter than the menu when the source is a package. Men...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

REORG with a new keyword should transfer the page set work to DFDSS

Why is the above idea useful? Sometimes you need to move page sets around due to altering the HLQ, due to removing extents etc. These actions do not require an unload and reload of the data, because it is external stuff out of DB2 scope. For small...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

wxA Conversational Search, utilising LLM's which has raised concerns over PCI compliance which is relates to Wx.ai.

Market: UKI Use Case: The project is to integrate the Conversational Search capability in the IBM Watson X platform with the Sky GenAI EM products (clients knowledge-base database), to help the assistant extract an answer from the highest-ranked q...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

multi-language for governance artifacts & metadata enrichment

Intro Customer uses IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Cloud and wants to promote CPD services throughout business units within the company. BU are located in different countries with different languages. In the business unit (BU), which represents the...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review