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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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Enable usage of db2move copy as external refresh tool when mirroring

IBM CDC (IBM Infosphere Data Replication) External Refresh currently requires the export and import phases to be clearly separated so that the external unload can be marked between them. The documented workflow is: Run dmmarkexternalunloadstart s...
5 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Improved rollforward recovery with loadcopy for different database names

Enhance the --dbname logarchopt configuration parameter so that it applies universally across all log archive methods (e.g. COS/DISK) and extends to cover LOAD COPY image retrievals. This will provide a standardized, single-point override for all ...
about 7 hours ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Add View Asset Type Filtering and Export Capabilities in Catalog Search

there is currently no effective way to retrieve and export a complete list of these assets. Although the asset type is visible in the user interface, View is not available as a filtering option: Catalog search: users cannot filter the results to...
4 days ago in watsonx.data intelligence 0 Under review

Enable Native HTTP/REST API Calls from Db2 LUW SQL

Business Scenario and Problem Banco do Brasil is accelerating the adoption of hybrid cloud architectures based on IBM Db2 for z/OS, IBM Db2 LUW, Db2 Data Gate, OpenShift, and Cloud Pak for Data. As part of this modernization strategy, business app...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted

Request for Certify that IBM InfoSphere DataStage 11.7.1.6 SP3 is officially supported with Cloudera CDP 7.3.1

Good morning, Within our annual projetc's planning, we are currently scheduling to upgrade our Cloudera CDP cluster, running on version CDP 7.1.9 SP1, to target version CDP 7.3.2. In order to achive this goal, we have to certify all middleware sof...
5 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Add a re-sync health indicator, proactive alerting, diagnostic information and administrator-initiated recovery to the IBM Knowledge Catalog monitoring section of the IBM Software Hub Administration Console, so that administrators can detect and resolve m

IBM Software Hub — Knowledge Catalog: Add Re-Sync Health Status, Proactive Alerting & Recovery to the Administration Console Monitoring Section Product: IBM Software Hub Component: IBM Knowledge Catalog Area: Administration Console — Monitorin...
10 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

PILOT-TO-PLANT — Predictive-maintenance pilot-to-scale rollout agent

Short description: Turns stalled PdM pilots into funded multi-site rollouts with ROI proof. Problem: Predictive maintenance is stalling at the pilot stage across the industry: 30–40% of facilities run some form of it, but budget gaps and internal ...
about 1 hour ago in Digital Labor Automation 0 Submitted

CHANGEOVER-GUARD — Post-changeover first-article verification agent

Short description: Verifies machine health at changeover before first-article production. Problem: The most failure-prone moment in a production run is right after a changeover: tooling swapped, settings adjusted, recipes loaded — and the first ho...
about 1 hour ago in Digital Labor Automation 0 Submitted

LOTO-VERIFY — Lockout/tagout zero-energy verification agent for maintenance safety

Short description: Verifies zero-energy state and lockout completeness before work starts. Problem: Every maintenance intervention on energized equipment is governed by OSHA 1910.147 lockout/tagout, yet verification is still a paper checklist and ...
about 1 hour ago in Digital Labor Automation 0 Submitted

TRIBAL-KEEPER — Retiring-technician knowledge-capture agent for maintenance know-how

Short description: Captures retiring technicians' diagnostic know-how before it walks out. Problem: Mean time to repair is climbing (81 minutes, up from 49) largely because diagnostic know-how is retiring faster than it is being replaced: the tech...
about 1 hour ago in Digital Labor Automation 0 Submitted