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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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Allow DDL changes on a table with full row logging

We want to use CDC to replicate data changes to a different system. We do schema changes once a month, and this complicates things a lot. According to our vendor, this is a limitation for Informix only, other source systems can hande DDL changes t...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Automate install using ACM

Automate the installation and configuration of IBM Cloud Pak for Data using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Manager (ACM). There is a git repo available that explains how this can be completed via policies and kustomize, but it fully supported via helm.R...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Reorg Discard - documentation change

V13 Reorg Discard syntax introduces a new option NOCHECKPEND. When this option is used and the Reorg discards data from a parent row then the utility will NOT set the CHECKPEND on the child tables. This results in an referentially inconsistent dat...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

File inclusion and file exclusion filtering in crawler

The Dutch Ministry of Defense is using Watson Discovery for text document archiving purposes as well as text document analysis from these archives. They have experience with Watson Explorer Content Analytics and are migrating to Watson Discovery. ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Add Favourite Favorite item to navigation menu

I require a quick way to access my favourite reports, dashbards, folders. Currently I have to create shortcuts in my content, or search etc. this is clunky. On the home menu, that has Home, New, Upload Data, Recent, there should be a 'Favourites' ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Data Refinery - add annotation on a per step basis

When creating refinery flows please add the ability to document or add comments to each step in the flow.
about 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration
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Project name in enterprise search results instead of project id

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When we search for data assets in Cloud Pak for Data we receive results from all places that asset appears, for Catalog the results show the Catalog name, but for Projects, the results shows the project id instead of the project name as desired. T...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Provide out-of-the-box Prometheus Exporters which invoke Safer Payments APIs and convert to a Prometheus format required by external Monitoring Solutions

Each client needs to integrate Safer Payments with their external Monitoring Solution. In the case of the Federal Reserve the monitoring solution is Grafana. The following are standard Safer Payments APIs that on many projects need to be integrate...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Restrict Access to Directory Search of Cognos Namespace

User chooses to run report in the background and selects email delivery option. The report author can then email a report with sensitive data to an entire Cognos namespace group like Consumers. Current work around forces us to shut off Report Sche...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration