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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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Compatibility with SAP S/4 HANA 2021

Our company is upgrading from SAP ECC to SAP S/4 2021. We use datastage to retrieve data from SAP via SAP PACK for application 8.2.0.1. Our existing jobs continue to work with S/4 2021. On the other hand, it is not possible to generate a new ABAP ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Show meaningful error messages (when there is no access to platform connections)

Currently notebooks can not be started, when there is a storage volume from platform connections in the project and the user does not have access to platform connection The error message shown is "Notebook could not be loaded", which does not prov...
over 4 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 1 Delivered

Ability to use the timezone set in the User Preferences

The functions AsOfTime() and AsOfDate() should take into account the time zone specified in "My preferences".The user has the possibility to define its time zone, so *any* date function should take this into consideration with an option to take cu...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Verify Device Deletion (QR/FIDO) Reason Capture

This idea is for ISVA 10.0.7 , the IAM solution does not provide the feasibility of capturing the reasons for deletion of details . This function is important form an audit and security .
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Safer Payments & http protocol

Safer Payments server stops responding when sending requests with HTTP header "Transfer-encoding: chunked" Use case Sample: curl -k \ -X POST https://safer-payments.uat.feci.geci:37911/ \ -H "X-SP-Protocol-Version: 1" \ -H "Accept: application/jso...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced statistics, e.g., for entire table dataset

The statisticin WKC refers only to the first 5,000 rows and is therefore useless for evaluating the entire dataset in a table. There should be more selection options, such as statistics on the entire table or special selections (e.g., statistics o...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Enable document URL links

When a document retrieved by web crawling is checked from the search screen, I want to enable a link to the original document from the URL in the meta information. The customer used oneWEX before, and has been migrating to WD Premium service since...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Delivered

Support IBM DB2 on Amazon Linux2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has End of life as April 2021. We use IBM DB2 11.1.4 Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for our MDM instances which is not compatible with the higher versions of Ubuntu -18.04 LTS and above. Same is true for the updated versio...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Want to use the crawl date as a date in the Content Miner when using the web crawler.

The customer used oneWEX before, and has been migrating to WD Premium service since June 2021. However the customer are suffering from lack of functionality in WD. In oneWEX, when crawled data with using the web crawler, it was possible to set ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration