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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.

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Export PAW Book to Excel

This feature would allow users to export an entire Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) book directly into Excel. Each tab of the book would be exported as a separate worksheet within a single Excel file. Why is it useful? It simplifies the sharing ...
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Give AI real Forward-thinking cognition, while cutting training and resources needed by 90%

Here are the primary benefits LFM contributes to general AI architecture: 1. Shift from Pattern Matching to Principled Derivation Traditional AI (including most large language models) excels at finding correlations and patterns in massive datasets...
4 days ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Add Support for Confluent JSON Schema in Kafka Stages

Only Avro is currently supported. Even if the data is read as text and the magic byte is removed and the text is transformed into JSON, the Kafka producer cannot serialize the JSON back to the Confluent JSON schema.
4 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Column Customization and Filtering on the Business Term Page

Our customer would like to view fields such as “Data Owner” as columns on the Business Term page and filter based on this information. Therefore, it is suggested to make the grid structure customizable (e.g., adding/removing columns, adjusting vis...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Monitoring role for CDC Subscriptions: Check Subscription Status without table level access

This idea is for DB2 for Z/OS as Source in IIDR CDC replication environment At present, the IIDR CDC Management Console and CHCCLP scripts allow status check on CDC subscriptions only if mainframe user used to connect to DB2 on Z/OS datastore has ...
4 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z !

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z ! Db2 Z provides some OLAP functions that are only available as passthrough functions that are only available via an “accelerator” https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-f...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Submitted

INPLACE REORG should always be interruptible

Under certain circumstances it is not possible to stop/pause or force an INPLACE REORG that waits for a lock (TS019866410). Because the INPLACE REORG does not respect lock timeouts, it hangs in "lock wait" until the lock holding session releases t...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

SQL0659N to supply relevant data

When a query fails with SQL0659 ("Maximum size of a table object has been exceeded") there is no indication of which object is at fault. In the execution I am examining there is also nothing relevant in the diagnostic log. An indication in the err...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

Add utility eventid to IFCID 23,24 and 25

The new utility tables have eventid, but this isn't in the utility audit ifcids, so by adding it, then gives easy matching between any utility audit table and the system utility tables Also the system utility table could have gaps due to data not ...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Improvement of Report Functionality in PAFE for Enhanced Data Analysis and User Productivity

Currently, users face limitations in their report, which hampers productivity and the ability to analyze data effectively. Issue is When a value is entered in "As Value Mode" and the formula is overwritten, the formula will not reappear in that re...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted