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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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Disaster Recovery procedure

Updates : March 28, 2024 - PX DR procedures were tested with ING and delivered in 4.8.x. Next Steps : Understand the gaps on where ING is not able to execute the procedure Hello, As part of our process of testing Cloud Pak for Data 4.0.1 we want t...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

Collect I/O per LSF job as a resource to be reported to RTM

As number of CPUs per machine rises, the I/O to disk rises proportionally, but the bandwidth to the disk generally does not scale. We have found that in high-cpu machines, the system can grind to a near halt due to overload of the disk I/O. We can...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

TM1 Server is Ready Alert

Currently we have alerts set when the windows services associated with a TM1 server instance stops and when it is "running", however, these alerts are not a true indicator that the server instance is available/online in PA for our users as it is n...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make FTM IP Purge Utility OCP Compatible

Purge Utility delivered with FTM IP can be configured using a Cron job to trigger it run and purge transactions in FTM Database. Since FTM IP/DP has been configured on OCP now, we expect FTM Purge Utility to be OCP Compatible. As of now Utility is...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Provide DISPLAY command option to generate XML

The various DISPLAY commands in DB2 return a lot of useful data. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to store the output in a DB2 table. If every DISPLAY command came with an option that returned the output in loadable XML format, we could store t...
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Application registration or service principal

While connecting/setting up data sources for Watson Discovery, currently the only option is to include userid/credentials - this is not suitable in enterprise solutions (like our case) where we have multi-factor authentication enabled for userids....
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Provide flexible way to segementise tasks based on various attributes of the data model

It is desirable to be able to query for a combination of attributes.Query should support wildcard and phonetic where applicable.Attributes are:Meta level - Match Category type - Score range - From/Til which date/time on has a task been created (I'...
over 8 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Support Postgres DBAlias via pr0cnfg on Linux

Per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=tasks-syntax-keywords, the pr0cnfg command only supports adding DBAliases for Oracle and UDB DBMS types on Linux. This means that we must use Windows if we want to use Optim Data Privacy to mask Pos...
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Oracle balanced optimization doesn't support timestamp data type with microseconds

Our business requirement is to store date fields as timestamp with microsecond precision. Balanced optimization for Oracle is not able to optimize transformer stage that contains date literals with this precision. IBM engineering confirmed that th...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Add environment_guid as a environment variable when running jobs

When running a jupyter notebook in CP4D, Watson Studio Project, there is an environment variable called environment_guid. This is a very handy environment variable as it contains the guid of the environment associated with the jupyter notebook whe...
over 4 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration