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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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Don't automatically validate SQL queries when opening TI process.

Whenever you open a TI that contains a SQL script for a DB connection, the process validates the query. In some cases the query is so large that the validation times out, but it takes 2 minutes for this to happen. So every time I need to view the ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Exit with non-zero return code or abend after a subroutine or other abend

IMS CDC terminates with a zero return code after one of its IMS subroutines abends -- 'playing havoc' with customer replication processes and schedules. IBM Cases TS002591910 and TS002591963 detail the troubling, non-mainframe behavior of IMS CD...
almost 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

Reusable Gantt chart for Python models

Provide interactive Gantt that can easily connect to a Python CPLEX model, without writing code for the Gantt. (see e.g. how SPSS Modeler provides reusable and configurable visuals inside their new UI, we are looking for a similar experience, i.e....

Add IBM Cloud Private Path as a connection type in the Common Core

We would like to demonstrate by IBM TechxcHange in October 2024 how we can integrate watsonx.ai cloud service with IBM Cloud Workloads connected via the IBM private network. Workloads include VMware, Oracle, SAP HANA, SQL etc or anything workload ...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Support federation to Presto using JWT authentication

Customer does not allow user/password authentication to data sources, including Db2 and Presto (watsonx.data). With the help from the labs we managed to configure Presto in watsonx.data to accept JWT authentication; for this an idea has been creat...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Delivered

Action Menu - remove Copy option

RBS are planning to rollout GRC OpenPages to 1LOD users using the 7.4 standard UI. We have had to implement a trigger to prevent users from copying objects due to inherent issues with the copy functionality (copy child objects and not auto naming ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Delivered

Add option to use manage option SMSDSEXIST in ICKDSF for option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes

Our site have an option to protect volumes with datasets from INIT with ICKDSF and when we run Recovery expert with option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes it fail with messages : 09:58:46 ARYS278I - Task 01 - Unit 9A01 was initialized with volser...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow multiple ALTER PART nnn VALUES clauses in one ALTER TABLE stmt instead of SQLcode -637 error

Requirement to alter many partition limit key values for a PBR tablespace. New values come from external source so REORG REBALANCE is not suitable. With index-based partitioning it is possible to alter multiple partition limit keys in a single AL...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Counter dimension mapping in Controller Web import

It should be possible to map counter dimension codes using lookup tables, just like it is currently possible for dim1.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Map Visualization: make maximum legend items configurable. Current limit is 100.

When using a 11.1 Map visualization with a Points layer, it’s not possible to have the legend show more than 100 items. We have a dataset with 134 items, but the visualization cuts off the legend at 100 items even though the legend is scrollable a...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Delivered