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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Filter out old entries from log viewer when the workflow executions are missing in process manager in Manta

Background: The process manager in Manta sometimes goes through data corruption and reverts back to an earlier state. Let's illustrate with an example: Let's say I have a manta instnaces where I have execeuted a few workflows. I have workflow exec...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

Generate UETRs for MX during MSIF sending, not in the MER Data Entry (DNIMX&DNIFINPLUS)

1. For T2 MSGs that we enter in DNIMX domain the field for UETR is not mandatory so we can leave it empty but when we send the MSG from MER to InterAct and to SWIFTNet the UETR is not calculated and field PmtId – UETR is empty even if we put CD co...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 5 Future consideration

Inactive User Designation within the UI

Raised on behalf of client: When working with inactive users there are a number of advantages to be able to see when a User select field is populated with a user who has been marked as an inactive user. We would like to be able to achieve some of ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Natural Language to API Payload – AI Ordering Agent

In enterprise platforms, placing orders for subscription-based products (e.g., trial plans, add-ons, upgrades) requires navigating through complex forms or understanding the internal API payload structure. This creates friction for business users ...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

1 Character Password

Admin password can be changed to 1 chacter password from GUi need RFE to port EGO_DISABLE_ADMIN_ACCESS parameter in PAM+default plugin
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Enable reading NUMBER(1) columns in New Oracle CDC stage as INTEGER rather than BYTE

There is an existing CI in the old system for this; adding it to the Ideas portal for customer visibility. StreamSets documentation explains that we convert Oracle's Number type to SDC data types based on precision and scale, converting NUMBER fie...
11 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Column and Row scroll synchronization

When there is more than one view on a PAW sheet, and either the rows or columns extend beyond the visible screen area for both views, it would be common for users to want both views to scroll simultaneously. For example, let’s say both views have ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Need access control at project level of Watson Discovery

Customer will use Watson Discovery as the NLP solution. Customer has very specific requirement that group A can only see data set 1, while group B only see data set 2, but in WD, all people can see all projects (including all the files/ data) with...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Request to develop "Apply for Spanner" with GCP Spanner as CDC target

Our cloud applications use GCP Spanner as DB that support Strong-ACID compliance writes with TrueTime ordering. Hence requesting IBM to develop "Apply for Spanner" which can build on "Apply for BigQuery" already developed by IBM. It will also be g...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted