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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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Early release of GUI development capabilities

Currently, GUI-based development in wxO has many limitations and remains heavily dependent on ADK. Strengthening GUI development capabilities would make scale-out much easier and greatly enhance feasibility for large-scale project deployments. The...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Functionality already exists

DataStage incorporates multiple open-source components. To ensure system stability and operational consistency, any behavioral changes resulting from updates to these bundled open-source components should be managed and absorbed by the DataStage installer. This approach prevents disruptions during system deployment and post-deployment operations.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
about 1 month ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Under review

Request to Simplify and Improve ADDI Visualization for New User Onboarding

We have received repeated feedback from our client regarding the current visualization of flow diagrams and reports within ADDI. They have expressed that many of the generated diagrams appear overly dense and difficult to interpret, especially for...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Add support in Db2 to disable GSKit session cache using GSK_V2_SIDCACHE_SIZE and GSK_V3_SIDCACHE_SIZE

Db2 currently uses GSKit for cryptographic and TLS operations, and the GSKit session cache is enabled by default. While GSKit itself allows disabling the session cache by setting environment variables such as GSK_V3_SIDCACHE_SIZE=0, Db2 does not h...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Under review

add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Informix - Adjusting Edition Limits

With the introduction of IDS 15, storage options within an instance have become virtually unlimited. Fortunately, this has also removed several restrictions that, over the years, led to unnecessary administrative effort across different editions. ...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Watson Code Assistant Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks. This will improve developer productivity immensely.
about 1 month ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Install TM1py directly on PA Cloud

Currently, the IBM policy does not allow installation of third-party applications on the IBM cloud servers. TM1py is a robust, proven, application-specific, community-supported python library that should be allowed as an exception to this rule. Th...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Future consideration

Code Explain should support macros

Many customers use macros to generate COBOL to simplify the way that they wrote code, especially for standard processes. When developers select their code in the IDE to generate an explanation, it won't always be standard COBOL thanks to these mac...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

PAW Security for instances

As both a developer and a user, I would like to see only relevant instances displayed in the side panel of PAW. However, I do not want to have to manually select the instances I wish to view. Instead, I would prefer that this be managed by an admi...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration