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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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Relationship activity should also be visible on the child object

When an object is associated to a parent object, this relationship activity is only visible on the parent object activity tab and not on the child object. It would be really convenient for the users to also have this relationship activity on the c...
29 minutes ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted

Recovery Expert to support the building of FlashCopy Image Copies from SLB's

Currently we cannot recover individual tablespaces from an SLB (System Level Backup) to a new tablespace (redirected recover) using either the RECOVER utility or Recovery Expert. We can produce a normal Image Copy from the SLB using Recovery Exper...
about 2 hours ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Submitted

Show full source path in dashboard source details

In Cognos Dashboards, only the name of the source is shown, not its full folder path. This becomes a problem when sources (e.g. datasets) with the same name exist in different folders, because users cannot identify which exact source is linked to ...
about 2 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Support Redirected Recovery from Systems Level Backups in Recovery Expert

As a companion idea to the support of redirected recoveries from System Level Backups (SLB's) by the IBM RECOVER utility that I have raised under - IBM Ideas can Recovery Expert or Recovery Expert Pro be enhanced to provide this functionality as a...
about 2 hours ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Submitted

Oracle DataStage Connector Should Automatically Serialize XMLTYPE Columns to LONGVARBINARY Instead of Requiring Explicit getBlobVal() in Every Query

I have an oracle table with a column of type XMLTYPE. I have a flow where, using oracle-datastage conenctor, I try to cast this xml data into LONGVARBINARY type to be used in the flow. They are receiving the following error when trying to run that...
about 4 hours ago in Connectivity Submitted

Differential Refresh CDC Replication Engine for Kafka

If mirroring fails due to read log read file or network drop data loss is there. So if this option is available it will help to get the data which was lost .
about 4 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Native Hover & Click Feedback for PAW Action Button

User Story As a PAW Modeller, I want the native Action Button properties to be extended with hover and click feedback as defined by the Carbon Design System, so that I can give buttons visual feedback like any other Carbon-conformant IBM applicati...
about 3 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Increase maximum number of live toolkits allowed

See TS022572357 (https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ00000E6TaLQAV/can-max-live-toolkits-available-be-increased-from-5-to-15-in-our-tenant?language=en_US) for the original ticket about this. We currently have 12 sub-agents, and each has mult...
about 7 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Knowledge has connectors to Google Drive

Give agent access to her enterprise knowledge while leaving her content in place.
about 8 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Enable JDBC Producer to generate SQL Server-compatible DELETE statements when Multi-Row Operation is enabled for tables with multi-column primary keys.

== Problem: JDBC Producer generates DELETE statements incompatible with Microsoft SQL Server when "Use Multi-Row Operation" is enabled for tables with multi-column primary keys. == Current Behavior: JDBC Producer generates: DELETE FROM table WHERE...
about 10 hours ago in StreamSets Submitted