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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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  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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Customer requesting JSON data type support in 4GL

Two customer using 4GL as main development system, request support for JSON variables or JSON casting in 4GL for being able to use BSON columns in 4GL.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Local TM1 Server Chore time in PAW Workbench

Our TM1 servers are placed in Sydney and development team is spread across geographies. While setting up chores from PAW workbench, we do not get to see local TM1 server time, as available in architect. We see local browser time in workbench that ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Put time & geographic attributes into Framework Manager

FM as the development tool should handle all information on the data model. Adding overmodelizations in the portal is not logical and adds unnecessary complexity. It's a menu of too much
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Upload Spark Job script from project asserts list from Deployment Space

If you want to run a job using the Spark job API, you need to upload your python script (spark code) as described in the documentation. The possible scenarios are as follows. Develop your spark code using jupyter or jupyterLab in your project. Dow...
about 4 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

UNION should automatically be rewritten to "UNION ALL" when it is logically equivalent

In the following query, the developer coded "UNION". Because it is part of a "WHERE EXISTS" subselect, replacing the UNION with "UNION ALL" will perform much better and deliver the same results: SELECT * FROM PDBR111.VCLI095_SELECT V01WHERE V01.AR...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Classic CDC for IMS - Enhanced Z/OS monitoring ability

When conducting CDC for IMS Publishing to MQ we are able to start an online trace in the Classic Data Architecht tool which provides ud with multiple information among others the ability to see if the CDC for IMS Capture task is keeping up pace wi...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Ability to mass duplicate a dialog node

When setting up a new bot with many nodes of the same structure (e.g. just simple responses), at the moment you can only duplicate nodes one by one. Sometimes this can run up to hundreds of times for larger bots. Would be really useful if you coul...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Need a DataStage super operator role with export permission

We have a requirement due to SOX auditing rules that developers can have read-only access to the DataStage jobs in production. However, we would still like the developers to be able to export the jobs so they can be moved to the non-prod environme...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Default of for read only for all select statements

As you might have noticed, the "for read only" clause of the select statement in DB2 is not widely known nor used. Most standards select statements going through the DB2 engine have the risk of becoming an ambiguous cursor with sub-optimal perform...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Make mulit threading native API feature

Currently we heavily utilize API to process a large quantity (1,000+) of risks (update security rules, update data, etc.). This is done sequentially and does not utilize available infrastructure. While OP core application scales quite well, API (c...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 0 Not under consideration