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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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Possibility to influence the naming of NSDs in a Db2-managed pureScale installation

We run a regular cloning of a Db2 pureScale to provide a time consistent copy which is used for BI/DWH purposes.This is done via storage features, in our case with HDS (Hitachi) Shadow Image (similar to IBMs FlashCopy). We don't have any issues to...
9 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Delivered

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Enable Out of the Box metrics for watsonx.ai monitoring, alerting and dashboarding

Our client wants to have end-to-end capabilities to detect issues related to the models deployed on watsonx.ai. Currently, watsonx.ai has limited ability on it's own without watsonx.gov in terms of monitoring performance and health. We request to ...
2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Add Explicit LDAP Domain Selection UI

Summary Introduce a dedicated UI control—either a drop‑down list or an editable text box—that requires users to explicitly select or enter the LDAP domain when authenticating. The supported domains are: USWIN VDSI ADEBP The chosen domain must be p...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Provide alternate authentication method for system accounts (different from user authentication method)

Safer Payments v6.8 introduced full OIDC support. In this version, Safer Payments now does the "heavy lifting", communication directly with the IDP to retrieve an ID token containing the user's information. This is a great feature and works with a...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Configurable separation of data pools

Configuration option to allow / prohibit certain data pools to be joined. E.g. the total data Watsonx.BI has access to consist of multiple pools of data: DataPool A, B and C. Prohibit: Join of data pool A with data pool B Prohibit: Join of data po...
2 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Allow ability to refresh book before running TI process in action button from PAW workbench

We have noticed in PAW that there is ability to refresh book after running TI process in action button but there is no option to refresh before running the process. (Please refer the attached snapshot). As refresh capability set by Grid Refresh is...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Inheritance of PRIQTY/SECQTY Parameters for LOB and Index Spaces in Newly Activated PBG Partitions

In a Universal Table Space (UTS) defined as Partition-by-Growth (PBG), when a base table includes a LOB column, the initial LOB table space and its associated index can be explicitly defined with specific primary and secondary space allocation par...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Add all leaves to advance synchronization options

Add all leaves as an option for when you have a hierarchy that consists of more level and you still want it to show all leaves
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Request of a way of keeping OIDC user profiles with consistency check

The Consistency check doesn't work in an OpenId environment. We are trying to keep our database to the minimum size possible and also cleaning up when user are deleted from AD, etc. This function is not supported right now from what the support sa...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration