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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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Migration assistant from ADS/IDMS to Cobol or Java

My client is very interested in watsonx Code Assistant for Z as a modernization tool to help them incrementally transform their ADS code into Cobol or Java within z/OS
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

Add image file and .zip file shortcuts in the data panel with Notebooks (Visual Recognition)

Problem: Using the Visual Recognition API in a Notebook with your own image files or .zip files requires you to upload those files to Cloud Object Storage, and then copy those files from Cloud Object Storage to your Notebook working directory. Usi...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to add a reconciliation rule between an Intercompany account and an Investment account

It would be beneficial if it was possible to enter reconciliation rules between Intercompany accounts and Investment accounts (defined with Investment code I (Acquisition calculation). Both of the IC-accounts and Investment accounts are used for g...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

For the person who wants to identify the tablespaces that are in advisory reorg-pending status to collectively identify those tables and include them collectively in a reorganization job.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Replace unique NPI by PI

We need to replace non-partitioned unique indexes by partitioned indexes. This will be even more important when we start converting PBGs to PBRs in vNext. Already today you can create a new unique index. The problem is getting rid of the old NPI. ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Company independent lookup tables in controller web

In the client version of cognos controller the possibility exists to create company independent lookup tables by including a temporary field that retrieves the company code in the upload file and link this to the mapping table with the same code. ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

timeout notification

For accessibility Compliance of WCAG 2.1 - LEVEL A- Compliance 2.2.1 Timing Adjustable, We need to provide a notification of timeout to our end users for any time less than 20 hours. I understand that there are options for the user to extend time,...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The AI Code Generator Outline Instructions App automates the generation of code outlines and provides detailed instructions, assisting developers in quickly scaffolding and understanding common programming tasks.

An AI Code Generator Outline Instructions App is a software tool designed to assist developers in generating code outlines and instructions for various programming tasks using artificial intelligence. Here's an overview of its functionalities: 1. ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Add a "Test Derivation" option for Transformer derivations

When coding Transformer derivations it would be very nice to have (similar to "Validate Derivation") a "Test Derivation" Option that would work like a "View Data" in e.g. a Connector Stage. When using this option, DataStage would ask for the value...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration