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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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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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Integration with Microsoft Copilot 385 , Office 365 , Sharepoint and Microsoft Team

This is very important, as follows: 1- most enterprises use Microsoft Applications in the Forefront and IBM Agentic AI for Enterprise in the Back End, 2- We can do the Digital transformation smoothly and keep the investment in Microsoft technologi...
29 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Functionality already exists

License Scheduler - Minimum Preemption Time

It's been observed when the license scheduler preempts a job to free up license resources, the job can occasionally be resumed within 1-2 seconds if license features are freed up during that time. This leads to behavior where processes do not prop...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Functionality already exists

Enable partitioning for .CUB and .FEEDER files

For very large (over 10GB) .cub and .feeder files, the time to load, save or process them could be substantially reduced were they partitioned and processed in parallel. For servers with 40 cores, the time savings can be significant. The obvious u...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Add GPU support for Machine learning

Various machine learning backends benefit greatly by running with GPU support. We can already run Keras with a TensorFlow backend on DSx but it's CPU only which makes it unusably slow for many situations. It would be great to allow DSx to take adv...
about 8 years ago in Watson Machine Learning 5 Functionality already exists

Abiity to add Notification Popup on Logon

The Popup screen on Logon with a detailed message including links would be useful for Admin team to post messages to End User. Usecases include below 1) Customers have releases with various changes scheduled on a frequent basis. It can be highligh...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for Altering the Partitioning Columns Through Panels

When altering the columns involved in partitioning a table, several steps must be done which introduces complexity and potential for errors. This is the current provided solution: Do a GEN on the table and save the generated DDL. Adjust the partit...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Display the prefetch wait time metrics in the monreport.dbsummary stored procedure .

The idea will be very useful in deciding the prefetcher performance in the database which helps in reducing the I/O usage in the system. What is this prefetch wait time and when it occurs?(DB2LUW performance) Prefetcheers are very important EDU's ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

Manta should suport extracting correct lineage from PROC FREQ statements

When Manta scans the following SAS Snippet: proc freq data=work.orig_sort noprint; tables tranwrd62*SCAN/out=work.var_by_count; where SCAN not in (" " "!!UNK" "!!NA");run; proc sql; create table work.most_freq_var_by_class as select tranwrd63, SCA...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Functionality already exists

Is there any way to give permissions to only check logs and see jobs in designer and director for Datastage & Quality stage super operator?

IBM DataStage & Quality stage super operator (Super Operator and Operator): users the ability to run and schedule jobs, view full job logs, and view jobs and objects using the Director and Designer clients, respectively for the above User role...
4 months ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists