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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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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CDC Deployment on Red Hat Linux 9.x

Change Data Capture for Linux should be also available for Red Hat Linux 9.x. Actually it is only supported on RH 8.x.
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Delivered

Dynamic _as_of_date

The _as_of_date functionality works great and makes relative dates so much better. However, the inability to set a dynamic _as_of_date is a challenge. For example many customers have data warehouses that load based on yesterday's data. These custo...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Drive Explorer - add disk space available and folder sizes

With the demise of RDP access to the Planning Analytics server and the local File Explorer access imminent, I have been trying to use Drive Explorer to do my usual server activities.I need to duplicate the Data Folder of a PA instance, however I c...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Cognos ability to read from REST API services

One challenge we are facing today is the ability to read data from non-traditional databases such as Marklogic, Nginx, NoSql databases which talk through Rest API for most of their functionality. They not only enable real time reporting requiremen...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered
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Backup from RSS or HDR Secondaries using ontape, onunload, onbar, dbexport

In HDR enviroments, being able to backup or export databases from and HDR, HDR read-only, or an RSS secondary server is critical. Programs like ontape, onunload, dbexport, and onbar generate locks on tables during backups and data-exports. This cr...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Chat UI support for UI widgets (forms, tables, non-textual response types)

Currently, agent chat can support text-based responses only. We are looking for chat UI enhancement so that UI widgets can be rendered in the chat to display input/output forms, interactive tables with radio buttons for data selection, and non-tex...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Delivered

Retrieve LOB data from the redo log when it is available there

Currently the CDC Oracle XStream engine always retrieves LOB data by doing a read on the database, even if the LOB data is inline (held in the redo log). This has a massive impact on performance and the CDC footprint
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Graphically show relationship between model objects and physical database objects

IKC needs to graphically show relationship between physical data model objects and physical database objects (e.g. tables and columns).
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 8 Delivered

Import metadata in the database level

Import metadata in the database level, and not in the schema level. Why: if a new schema is created in the database, it is currently not automatically identified by a recurrent job created in the Cloud Pak for Data project. If the job could be con...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

JSON Support as datasource

Some of our customers are using Datameer, PowerBI or Tableau for doing raw data exploration and using JSON as a datasource directly.Cognos Analytics also should support JSON as a datasource both for self service and enterprise bi
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered