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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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  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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DSNTEP2/DSNTEP4 program parameter to specify the output record length without the need to recompile the program

we are in the process of migrating IBM tools and utilities from a third party vendor to IBM software and we need a program to run SQL select statements in batch with an output record length greater than 133 characters. In the IBM manual for sample...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

How to show data quality shown in column/lineage for special data quality measurement cases?

Your goal is to show the data quality on the lineage, right? We have a couple "special cases" we're not sure how to handle. First is related to "virtual tables" (as in IA terminology - I believe they are called something else in IKC). The Data rul...
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Under review

Support export of Microstrategy lineage from Manta Flow to Alation

Why is it useful ? Alation at Truist is the application for viewing all catalog and metadata across the enterprise. Lineage from Manta is exported to Alation to build the catalog. Who would benefit from it ? Any LOB at Truist looking to view linea...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Increased visibility into the IBM cloud console on the watsonx.ai service and its models

As you know the visibility that ibm cloud console gives you regarding the models used in watsonx.ai and the consumption quite reduced, it only differentiates between IBM models, thrid party models or Mistral. My client would like to be able to see...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Support all tool interactions in 3rd-party channels

Third party channels do not support form interactions and most pre-built skills tools + all skill flows/workflows are form-based today.
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Be omnipresent alongside external tools: UI automation / contextual awareness

UI automation and contextual awareness - to navigate and collaborate with third party applications [continuation of https://watson-orchestrate.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LSABER-I-985 which provides the possibility to embed wxO as a plug-in into a browner...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Federated AI for Secure Multi-Enterprise Collaboration

Why Is It Useful? In many industries, organizations hold valuable data that could collectively improve AI models—such as for fraud detection, disease diagnosis, or supply chain optimization—but data privacy, regulations, and competitive concerns p...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

IBM Manta : The export of data lineage from Manta Flow Viewer UI for a revision to PNG format needs high resolution.

Problem: Post workflow execution, when you preview a data lineage for a revision in manta flow viewer ui and export the lineage in PNG format. Next, when we try to use the export PNG file for data lineage in a PowerPoint Slide. The image is not cl...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Salesforce Connector to use latest version of Axis

We identified (In collaboration with IBM Support) that the SalesForce connector in Real Time mode experiences an OOM error when using third-party components and processing large records with big fields. In order to fix this issue Salesforce connec...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Enhance MettleCI Workbench ServiceNow integration to allow credential specification

We understand that ServiceNow OAuth authentication is a three-way process, Workbench, after initial Oauth handshaking, submits a third party credential to be responsible for the actual queries. We also understand that currently, the third party cr...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Under review