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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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Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Manta COBOL lineage should show paragraph name instead of MOVE statements

Background During lineage validation, we found that for technical users MOVE statements do not add any value to data lineage. Instead, PARA names are more meaningful than having the MOVE statement in the data lineage. It helps them to quickly rela...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

ALTER STOGROUP can run in parallel to applications => Deferred ALTER

We need to move a lot of page sets and hence a lot of data from one z/OS catalog to another and also to other stogroups and volumes. For this task we nned to ALTER the hlq of the page sets and move them via DFDSS FASTREPLICATION. Unfortunately the...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Possibility to filter requests in the Task Inbox

Filtering capability based on Primary Category and Tag/classification, to be able to differentiate recipe cycles (tags) in different data domains (categories) and artifacts.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Future consideration

Ability to view multiple values in Tooltip of visualization

I am using a % stack column chart and have multiple measures to be shown as stacked. However, I can only show one data value in the mouse hover over (Tooltip). However, % stack column chart has various other summarization option like % of category...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Future consideration

Add Export and Download Options for Tables

We would like the ability to export tables displayed in markdown format to external files such as CSV or Excel. Ideally, tables should include a download button so that users can easily download the displayed data in CSV/Excel format for further u...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Future consideration

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration