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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Datastage Migration Service Should Honor CP4D Folder Structures

In the context of a CP4D Datastage Project with Folders enabled... When a migration is performed (in my case from cpdctl) using an ISX file containing Legacy Datastage Assets (e.g. 11.3) that also exist in the CP4D project, the migration service b...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
12 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Submitted

In Pipelines' DataStage nodes using Parameter Sets, add an option to use a paramfile

In some scenarios, the values of the DataStage parameters in a Parameter Set must be loaded from a file at runtime. This option is possible through DataStage paramfiles. However, when you're running DataStage jobs from Pipelines using a DataStage ...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Build a Informix HQ server Container

The current process for deploying Informix HQ servers and agents across 600+ sites involves manually redoing scripts and configuration files for each site. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale as it requires individu...
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Utility for decrypting op-storage files

With cloudpak version of Openpages the op-storage files are encrypted by default and mandatory. Although we do have the REST APIs available to decrypt and encrypt these files, alternatively can we have a standalone utility or an SDK API which we c...
6 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

SSH Server CBC Mode Ciphers Enabled on InfraDC SSH port 8022.

Security scan has identified SSH Server CBC Mode Ciphers Enabled on InfraDC SSH port 8022. We tried disabling CBC ciphers from java.security config file however it does not work. Below are vulnerabilities which have been identified. Supports follo...
6 months ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

Message Store

Similar to CI/CD for assistant development. This would allow developers to create a file-like repository of messages that are disseminated throughout assistants based on their channel, regionality, or other attributes. Could potentially be created...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Evaluating conversation logs obtained from other chatbots

When evaluating conversation logs ( the data that consisting of input, output, and reference) obtained from other chatbots, the current WebUI only allows the selection of input and reference, and the output is automatically replaced with the text ...
7 months ago in watsonx.governance 2 Submitted