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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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  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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Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Natural Language to API Payload – AI Ordering Agent

In enterprise platforms, placing orders for subscription-based products (e.g., trial plans, add-ons, upgrades) requires navigating through complex forms or understanding the internal API payload structure. This creates friction for business users ...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Inactive User Designation within the UI

Raised on behalf of client: When working with inactive users there are a number of advantages to be able to see when a User select field is populated with a user who has been marked as an inactive user. We would like to be able to achieve some of ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Enable reading NUMBER(1) columns in New Oracle CDC stage as INTEGER rather than BYTE

There is an existing CI in the old system for this; adding it to the Ideas portal for customer visibility. StreamSets documentation explains that we convert Oracle's Number type to SDC data types based on precision and scale, converting NUMBER fie...
11 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Ability to Control data mapping into Read Only fields (Fields that are read only due to calculations)

Currently, when a field was made read only due to calculation ( ie.. Using the field in the set operation of a calculation), When we use fastmap to load data into that field, it can't be overridden. This seems to be accurate from a perspective tha...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Multi-tenant agents with user namespace isolation with deployment rings

Consider automation service providers delivering well known business processes to multiple clients, ex: “order to cash” (O2C). The service provider want to develop one standardised O2C digital agent, A, to deliver the O2C service to multiple enter...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

AD - New feature to broadcast message to analyze client users.

Currently AD has no facility to broadcast notification alert to user's community, instead we usually send information to application discovery users via email distributions. This idea is about introducing new feature to notify maintenance alerts w...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Known issues displayed in the corresponding page of the documentation

Users encountering an issue often check the documentation. If what they encounter is a Known Issue, IBM should display that Known issue on that page, because users will typically not search online for possible Known Issues. There should be only 1 ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Ability to capture metadata for relationships

Currently the platform does not allow for the capture of customer / use case specific data about relationships. For example when a Risk is associated to a control we would like to be able to store information on its % coverage etc. Its important t...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Improve the flexibility of changing PARTITION key

When to change PARITITION keys in multiple PARTITIOIN, a validation routine to check the data consistency runs every time ALTER command (ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION) is executed. In most cases we change the key value for multiple PARTITION keys an...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review