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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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Input Japanese language in the search bar on the catalog

>Idea Details: Normally, when Japanese people input "Kanji", input "Hiragana" at first with not confirmed status, after that convert it to "Kanji" using SPACE key. At last press ENTER key, the conversion is confirmed. <Steps> 1. in...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Is a defect

Enhance GSLA to enable in-queue preemption

The Guaranteed SLA system allows sharing of Resources defined by ServiceClasses. We would like to use that to allow two or more groups to pool and share compute slots, wherein they typically unused slots would be available to all of the groups. Th...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Clone a USER Profile

Oftentimes, we get a request that says "please create a new user and provide him with the same access rights/roles/permissions as user X". It would be great if you could clone a user profile, so that you can still enter a new ID, first name, last ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered

User search issue with ability to search with first name and last name in 7.1 version of OpenPages

There is no way to simplify the search for users. Common first name and last names could present a user with a large list to find the right person. Users are not able to find the right user as there is no option to search using both first name and...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Delivered

Improve search function Name - with double spacing

Names with two or more words and double space between them will in not be visible on the screen, one would have to export to Excel to see the extra space. In our case we have a lot of Names similar to each other, and searching for only first or la...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Support Secure Impersonation for DataStage Big Integrate JDBC Hive connection

We are using the JAAS configuration file (JDBCDriverLogin.conf) to implement the Kerberos authentication mechanism. In our original beta testing with PX on Hadoop , we found that DataStage assumed that the Hive SPN and cache would be used for auth...
almost 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Recipient name match score needs to be exposed.

With FTM 3.2.9.1 , from logs , I see that, EWS provides Recipient name match score in ValidateRecipientResponse . Example : <ns4:first-name-match-score>49</ns4:first-name-match-score><ns4:last-name-match-score>15</ns4:last-nam...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Global Environment Templates

I am writing to request the implementation of a feature that would greatly enhance the administrator experience on the platform – the ability for administrators to create/modify globally available custom environment templates. Currently, our platf...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

implementation of a “ADMIN ALTER TABLE TB1 INSERT COLUMN C AFTER B” functionality

AHA request for Db2 Administration Tool We are using another vendors DB2 database management solution and have developed a fully automated batch process which propagates DDL changes to many DB2 for z/OS DB2 systems. Our application developers use ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration