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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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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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Data transfer between different database schema

Referring to the IBM - TS019130593 - Rational Licensing - 9362997; Database should have the functionality to transfer data between schemas and allow creating new schemas which can be pointed to the IBM ART tool instead of sticking to one ARTDATA.....
5 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Functionality already exists

support additional content types: octet, plain text, multi form

Description of the specific solution idea: Ability to support additional media types: multipart/form application/octet-stream text/plain What are the top risks associated with this idea: Value Usability Feasibility - need to understand effort and ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Functionality already exists

IBM Change Data Capture High-Availability

ABN AMRO, one of the biggest IBM clients in the Netherlands, is facing a problem with CDC Software. The discussion revolves around improving the availability of the CDC agent in a Linux-distributed environment, replicating data from a mainframe to...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

Add the ability for more granular IKC user roles

Today, IKC has administrator, owner or editor roles. At large customers, various users need to perform various tasks and they are very cautious of data security. The customer would like to restrict the quantity of administrators. But some tasks li...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 11 Functionality already exists

Faster Data Clear

We would like the ability to clear data in a cubes faster than we can today. Today, a ViewClear simply writes a zero into every populated cell in the view. In most use cases we are simply attempting to clear an entire scenario and reload. So in ou...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Read and Write partitions in parallel with only one OUTDDN dataset

Recently, during some tests, we observed that using a single dataset for each part in the OUTDDN with &PART drastically improves the elapsed time of the HPU job (with benefits for data availability, reduced contention probability, etc.). Howev...
6 months ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

A way to automate user und group management in PAW

Regarding “corporate usability” there should be a way to automate the user und group management in PAW. Regarding the export of this data, please make a trigger available from outside, e.g. via an API or via a shell-script.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Find query subjects/items

System: Cognos Analytics 11.0.x In Dashboarding there is a Find bar allowing the user to search for a specific keyword in query subjects (tables) and query items (columns) in a data module. This feature should be included in Reporting, allowing th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Create online hierarchical DDL command

Currently, we have either the DDL or GEN commands to view the object definition. We would like GEN to be online (currently batch only) or have a new command. The action should produce the data in an online format (temporary dataset) for viewing or...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Backup PAW books

One of our highly valued customers, Aer Lingus, have a planning analytics in the cloud solution about to go live with phase 1 of the solution. This is a very large project with at least 45 users. On PAW, there are nearly 60 books currently. This f...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists