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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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Need a DataStage super operator role with export permission

We have a requirement due to SOX auditing rules that developers can have read-only access to the DataStage jobs in production. However, we would still like the developers to be able to export the jobs so they can be moved to the non-prod environme...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Ability to mass duplicate a dialog node

When setting up a new bot with many nodes of the same structure (e.g. just simple responses), at the moment you can only duplicate nodes one by one. Sometimes this can run up to hundreds of times for larger bots. Would be really useful if you coul...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

access to Denodo platform

Hello,I would need to interact with the Denodo platform, according to the compatibility matrix it is currently not a support platformCould you develop the connector for that platform in the next releases?Thank you
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Future consideration

Default of for read only for all select statements

As you might have noticed, the "for read only" clause of the select statement in DB2 is not widely known nor used. Most standards select statements going through the DB2 engine have the risk of becoming an ambiguous cursor with sub-optimal perform...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Make mulit threading native API feature

Currently we heavily utilize API to process a large quantity (1,000+) of risks (update security rules, update data, etc.). This is done sequentially and does not utilize available infrastructure. While OP core application scales quite well, API (c...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages PCM Import Documentation

Using hybrid Policy functionality, one can use a Word template to import the Policy information into OpenPages. There is no documentation on how to configure the template and OpenPages. The attachment provides documentation developed during a clie...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Documentation 2 Delivered

IBM Open Pages accepts multiple simultaneous logons (sessions) are allowed using the same user ID.

Security team would like to ensure users are restricted to a single logon. As checked with IBM support team, here is the information: "This same functionality has been requested in the past by others and rejected by developers." In this case, woul...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 0 Not under consideration

Hard delete not sufficiently delivered

RFE 115122 (Hard delete) is marked as delivered, however what has been delivered only gives us the access to the data, but not expertise on the database, which IBM have always advised us to avoid making changes on it. It does not give us the capab...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration