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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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Have to flip back and forth between Flow Designer and the Desktop Client

We are wondering if there is a patch already for this or if we can request an enhancement for something we see when using Flow Designer. Because we are building jobs in flow designer and using the Hierarchical stage, which can only be used in Flow...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

FastTrack all mapping folder/project export to csv and/or export all Source field and Target field for all project/folder.

kevinyan (IBM) 28 Apr 2019 ‎10‎:‎00‎ ‎PM Hi Divyesh, As my local test and discussion with IBM internal development team, there is no feature to export all the mapping specifications for the specified project into CSV format, rather than isx ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Multiple windows for SQL Results

When using the Data perspective to run SQL you have to independently click on the SQL results to view the result for each run in the right hand window. Suggestion would be to make it possible to break out each result into its own movable window, b...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Approval App - Permanently store completed items

Development Ticket: PI87867 The information about completed approvals disappears under certain circumstances. If the user changes devices, or clears the cookies / browser cache (common support scenario), the completed list is empty and the user wi...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Flashcopy abend REASON=X'00E40070 RFE 129327

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=129327 DB2 development recognized there is some room for storage usage improvement for processing of sequential copy and flashcopy together, though this would require a redes...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

My Portal pages folder

"My Portal Pages" folder - Cases - IBM Support After enabling "My Portal Pages" folder. It is permanently displayed below the "My Content" and "Team Content" folders. Unfortunately, unlike the "My Content" and "Team Content" folders, ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable API support to Restore data and object structure of an application instance from a selected snapshot

This functionality is needed for us to achieve functional parity with zOSMF templates to enable integration with strategic IBM platforms like ICP and ICP for Data. Currently zOSMF templates allows Snapshot, Restore and Refresh capabilities for app...
over 6 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Shared folder links do not work for anyone except Administrators if a custom folder is configured

Any shared folder link from Cognos Analytics ( 11.0.0 through the most recent version 11.1.1.0) will not work for anyone except System Administrators or Folder Administrators and therefore this feature is useless if shared with other Consumers/Aut...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable copying of links in the Designer

Currently links can not be copied standalone, you can copy a stage/activity and delete the stage and all links you don't want to achieve the result. Especially for Stages where you have no Mapping folder (i.e. Shared Container, Modify Stage) to ge...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Report output page options should be available for reports with Full interactivity=No, in Edit Mode

We are unable to see the following options in the report output page, when we run the report from Edit mode in HTML/PDF, for reports having 'Run with full interactivity'='No'. • ‘Run as’• Save• Refresh which means that a report developer cannot sa...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration