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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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As a developer (WO builder role) I need to be able to debug my work e.g. by access to logs / traces so that I am able to overcome errors

As a WO builder when working with the SDK I need to use a development IDE / Text editor to work with YAML / JSON files to add the needed Watson Orchestrate skill annotations and to generate the package structure to be able to control my desired Sk...
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Drive Explorer - Needs the ability to select more than 1 file at once ie Shift Click

Currently the Drive Explorer only allows you to tick one file at a time. So if you have to move/copy/delete more than a couple of files it is very tedious and time consuming. RTP you could open File Explorer and Shift Click to select multiple file...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Avoid Single point of failure for Db2's critical files

If the critical files of Db2 damage, e.g. by erroneously deletion, file system corruption Db2 will no longer be available (#usable). Since some of the critical files are permanently updated a restore of the critical files does solve the problem. A...
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Provide Backup Size Info In History FIle

Db2 LUW Doesn't provide Backup Image Size that was taken . Please add this info to history file along with location of backup image
over 7 years ago in Db2 3 Delivered

Option to override LOAD utility maintaining MAXASSIGNEDVAL for identity columns in Db2 V12

Our existing process to move data from one region to another using the LOAD utility stopped working on tables with generated by default as identity key column after we upgraded to Db2 12. The new LOAD enhancement to maintain MAXASSIGNEDVAL is caus...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Delivered

Task Focused UI - Linked Cognos reports opening in old Cognos viewer interface

With the upgrade to Cognos Analytics 11, one of the main functionalities is with report interactivity. OpenPages integration with Cognos is still using the pre-Cognos Analytics method and many of the new features do not run eg. Filters. Looking in...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 4 Delivered

There should be custom message on workflow validations

When a validation is added in the workflow action (OP 8.2) - the validation error displayed on the UI does not represent the actual error that stopped the user from proceeding with the workflow action. Sometimes the error message is so meaningless...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 8 Delivered

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

Save to the File System in Cognos Clouds

Current onsite cognos environment allows Save to the file system which is not available in Cognos Cloud environment.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Better way of handling Azure authentication in the Resource connector

Currently, the only method of authentication in the resource connector involves storing the credentials in a credential file, specifically in the LSF AZURE_CREDENTIALS_FILE parameter within the Azure configuration file. However, storing credential...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered