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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,

  1. Post an idea

  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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As cloud developer, I need small, easy to install IBM DB drivers for Node.js, Python, Go and more

When developing or working with containerized apps or even serverless technologies like FaaS (Function-as-a-Service), compact container sizes and quick and easy installation of all required components is essential. Contrast that with the big roadb...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

RPM Package for IBM DB2 Software Installation

Summary: Request for IBM to provide an RPM package for the installation of IBM DB2 software to facilitate easier deployment, management, and integration on RHEL. Description: IBM DB2 widely used database management system in our company. To improv...
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Message Store

Similar to CI/CD for assistant development. This would allow developers to create a file-like repository of messages that are disseminated throughout assistants based on their channel, regionality, or other attributes. Could potentially be created...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Ability to do input forms native in watsonx Assistant flows

Give developers the ability to create custom forms (with html) that can be delivered to users of the assistant
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Create models via. WatsonX.Governance UI in addition to Notebook

Currently the only way to create a model child (to the use case) is via. using the Python Notebook. It cannot be created via. the WatsonX.Gov UI. Once a use case is created, list of models to be used in the use case should be identified next. At t...
7 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Universal Watson Discovery

Universal Watson Discovery could be a powerful AI-driven knowledge and financial intelligence system, integrating IBM Watson Discovery's NLP, AI search, and document analysis with your broader Open Wealth Autonomous Nexus (OWAN), Nano Inheritance ...
7 months ago in Watson Discovery 2 Submitted

Add git support to CPLEX Optimization Studio

We request to add on-prem GitHub integration into IBM CPLEX Optimization Studio to version control OPL models, datasets, and options files. We’d like to add functionality to clone a repository, commit/sync to a repository, to create/switch between...
over 1 year ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Enabling Interactivity Across Multiple Containers in a Report

By enabling interactivity across these containers, actions taken in one container (like selecting a data point) can dynamically influence the content and display of another container on the same report canvas. When a user selects a data point or a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Hidden Defined Name Ranges causing Performance Issues in PAfE Reports.

PAfE reports, especially those containing DBRW formulas, show poor performance issues due to a large number of hidden defined names saved in the workbook. The names can be created for a variety of reasons. IBM suggested using VBA to unhide the nam...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Currently the developer needs pod level access to write python code on Cloud Pak for Data DataStage. It will help if python code can be added to DataStage jobs through a UI with developer level access.

Developers are trying to call python from DataStage. The wrapped stage has the ability to call python in parallel execution mode. However the script as we see resides on the px engine pod and hence is not practical for developers to use. Other opt...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted