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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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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,

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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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Field Validation & Invalid Information Handling

Implementing validation checks across one or more fields is crucial to ensure data integrity. Without this feature, we are at risk of accepting incorrect or incomplete data. Example validation: data picker can’t pick dates in future. Also there sh...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Allow SPSS Modeler to use Oracle connections configured with Kerberos SSO authentication

why - A lot more secure and less additional credential management. And it makes end user lives just a little bit easier when they don't have to mess around with additional credentials.who - All SPSS Modeler users who use Oracle DB as data sources....
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Under review

Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Under review

performance improvement for specific replication instance

Need improve deleting synchronization performance for big table with wide unique key column: We see latency keep increasing to 2 hours when batch deleting happen on big table which has ~1 billion rows and unique key includes 11 columns. More detai...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

OpenAPI Spec for CP4D APIs

UPDATE: Please see my comment below We have the need to automate Cloud Pack for data with the REST API. For this we would need an OpenAPI Spec File fitting to the CP4D Version (on premise) we currently have. This situation was discussed extensivly...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review

I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
11 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Automating Watsonx.ai installation experience

Why It's Useful: Automating the installation process reduces barriers to entry and onboarding for non-IBMers, SMEs, and new developers. This simplifies the user experience, leading to a more accessible product. Additionally, automation can lower c...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

REORG with a new keyword should transfer the page set work to DFDSS

Why is the above idea useful? Sometimes you need to move page sets around due to altering the HLQ, due to removing extents etc. These actions do not require an unload and reload of the data, because it is external stuff out of DB2 scope. For small...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Azure Synapse supported for ELT run mode

We have many customers who have an appetite for cost-reduction with their cloud warehouses. We have had multiple conversations with customers around leveraging Datastage writing to S3 in iceberg format, to be integrated with the warehouse like Sno...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Allow Table in Cognos dashboard to show message 'No data available' in case selected data is not available

Hey Team! In the dashboard, I was showing data in the table visualization. It is working fine if the data is present. However, if there is no data available, the table is left blank and only displays the headers, which is not a user-friendly view....
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Under review