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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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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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Private / direct endpoint support for watsonx.data Presto and Milvus services

Several other database and storage services support private / direct endpoints within IBM Cloud. There are architectures for watsonx.data that do not need to leave the IBM Cloud from a network perspective and should be able to rely on private / di...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 1 Delivered

Terminating Client mode Spark cluster from IBM Spectrum Conductor

IBM Spectrum Conductor supports Spark clusters in both, "cluster" and "client", modes. The "cluster" mode spark-cluster contains a dedicated spark-driver that IBM Spectrum Conductor manages. Hence, when such spark-cluster creates any issue with th...
5 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Advanced Network compression for DB2 HADR

Advanced data compression in network technique provide a way to convert data into alternate data formats which use less size. These techniques can be helpful to compress data to be transmitted over network at the sending side and then convert back...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Replication 3 Not under consideration

Add Websphere Application Server Network Deployment support for Cognos 11

Currently Cognos Analytics 11 does not support any Application Server other then the included Websphere Liberty Profile.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable partitioning for .CUB and .FEEDER files

For very large (over 10GB) .cub and .feeder files, the time to load, save or process them could be substantially reduced were they partitioned and processed in parallel. For servers with 40 cores, the time savings can be significant. The obvious u...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

IDAA Externalized Password Management for Management Console

Externalized Password Management for Management Console Problem Statement: IDAA admin console does not comply with current audit requirements The Admin console is administered using an admin account with a non-expiring password that is not vaulted...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Add GPU support for Machine learning

Various machine learning backends benefit greatly by running with GPU support. We can already run Keras with a TensorFlow backend on DSx but it's CPU only which makes it unusably slow for many situations. It would be great to allow DSx to take adv...
about 8 years ago in Watson Machine Learning 5 Functionality already exists

Access Cognos REST API via Gateway URL

Currently, IBM Cognos Analytics only officially supports REST API access via the dispatcher URL. While technically possible, using the Gateway URL for REST API access is not supported. This limitation presents challenges for customers whose networ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Change font color of Connection analysis

This is a request from a customer who makes heavy use of connection analysis. When displaying a large number of facet values ​​in connection analysis, the network graph becomes easier to read if the text color can be changed by facets. Also, for p...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration