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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Let Capture build the transaction message with non-LOB columns first and LOB columns last instead of in strict column sequence order.

Please consider changing Capture to build transaction messages with all non-LOB data first, then add on the LOB data after all other non-LOB data no matter what the sequence numbers. This would prevent the risk of splitting a message on non-LOB da...

Develop a Library of Pre-Built Enterprise Connectors

I have an exciting new idea, sparked by the actions that followed the remarkable success we achieved using IBM Orchestrate. Develop a Library of Pre-Built Enterprise Connectors The Idea: Offer a marketplace of no-code/low-code "actions" or "skills...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review
253 VOTE

Waterfall chart or Step Chart

Waterfall charts or step charts are a common requirement for Financial Reporting. In Excel the approach is to use transparent colours in a stacked bar chart to build the height required to just show the differences). In the Explorer view a Waterfa...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

There is growing demand to have longer first name, would like the MDM First name length be increased

Currently lot of jurisdiction has implemented IDS to support longer name, as there is a large demand to increase the name length due to many immigrants come to north America . Example, Ontario Health has created IDS for name, which has below lengt...
7 months ago in Master Data Management 2 Under review

Display Name on Actual @Mention Comment

When adding a comment mention you can search by First Name Last Name/Display Name. When the comment is actually logged, it defaults to UserName which in a lot of orgs is a userID/ alphanum string. This makes it difficult to remember who you're col...
23 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Functionality already exists

Improved functionality for tablespace fast pre-allocation

My customer is experiencing huge performance problems due to Tablespace Pre-allocation (DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION).At this time, IOCP Timeout occurs in Db2 and many tossbuffers occur in GPFS.This customer has been struggling with this problem for...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 6 Future consideration

Show citations by relevance

Citations are shown to the user not based on their relevance. As a result, the first citation displayed may be irrelevant and only used to enrich the answer, while the main page containing all important information might appear last. Ideally, the ...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

More versatile scheduling options to PA chores

I think current scheduling options to PA chores is out-dated. You can set chore to run once per day, or you can set chore to run custom frequency days-hours-minutes-seconds. Thats it, no more options. Real life scenarios to versatile scheduling op...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted
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Waterfall chart or Step Chart

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Waterfall charts or step charts are a common requirement for Financial Reporting. In Excel the approach is to use transparent colors in a stacked bar chart to build the height required to just show the differences). In the Explorer view a Waterfal...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered