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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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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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Add Search & Replace for Data Modules

Users will need to be able to search and replace expressions in data modules. Currently, not every ID change is automatically adapting its dependencies, causing errors in the data module. Now, we need to one by one adapt all depending expressions,...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

With RACF-exit, support auth cache refresh for RACF profiles with RACFVARS

Currently RACF ENF signals for the DB2 auth cache refresh are ignored if the profile contains a &RACFVAR class variable. This blocks the practical use of these profiles. In our case we have on one sysplex two different sets of DB2 subsystems(o...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Pass the dbname in parameter to the view

The Scenario: We use IDMS database and we have a lot of dbname in our organization. The Problem: We have to define a virtual table and a virtual views for all of our dbname. This create a lot of redundant work. Proposed solutions: The possibilitie...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDMS in Update

The Scenario: We can use DVM to access data in retrieval but we need an other solution to update the IDMS database. The Problem: It’s not possible to update IDMS databases. Current workarounds: Currently we need to develop Z/OS Connect API and COB...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Datastage Super Operator should have Run Now + Stop ability parameterised

In our production Datastage 11.5 environment we submit all of our jobs by using the command line from Linux scripts so that should only be submitted via an external scheduled job. This gives a degree of control over accidental updates to the produ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Functionality already exists

Enable additional Watson services as optional enrichments

As part of enriching documents ingested into Discovery, users have indicated the need augment existing NLU enrichments with additional Watson services. Specifically, a user wanted to use personality insights and NLC to help surface insights on con...
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support Watson Discovery service as a data destination inside of Data Platform

The Watson Discovery service has ingestion APIs that allow developers to create an interface for sending data to Discovery for use in their end application. Currently, these APIs are their only means of sending data to Discovery, and it is up to e...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Not under consideration

Upgrading R to version 3.4

I'm enjoying using Data Science experience but I reached the point where many packages won't update because the version running is 3.3. I believe adding an upgrade cycle to Data Science Experience will make it more relevant to the fast pace develo...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists

Function in Openpages to push the user's email recorded in Openpages to Cognos Analytics without developing cognos SDK

Currently the email recorded for an user in Oppenpages and the email in Cognos are not sync, a business will have to manually type their email address when trying to send report to themself. There is no way to add that for the user themself withou...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add a "filter expression" to a ServiceNow configuration in MettleCI Workbench

MettleCI Workbench uses ServiceNow's GET /now/table/{tableName} endpoint (and similarly for other WIM systems) to search for issues. The actual REST call performed is generated based on the ServiceNow IssueManagement configuration and search terms...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review