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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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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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to be able to modify a LSF job using alternative resources (-R with ||)

Hello, When we try to modify a running using alternative resources, bmod is failing with following error message: Cannot change rusage to a new || (or) expression after the job was dispatched. This is a design limitation as we can see on the bmod ...
about 21 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

Provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for IBM IDAA (DB2)

IBM should provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for its products as a standard product deliverable, preferably based on the CycloneDX CBOM specification. Customers increasingly require transparency into the cryptographi...
3 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Provide actionable SQL engine storage-limit diagnostics to DS Client / AVZCLIEN applications

When an SQL request exceeds SQLENGSTGLIMIT, application developers and operations teams need to identify the resource-limit condition directly from the client or batch job output. Current behaviorIn the reported DVM 1.2 IMS Direct scenario, the se...
4 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

[docs] LMM typo found in developer edition install doc

In the .env configuration section of https://developer.watson-orchestrate.ibm.com/developer_edition/wxOde_setup It is said "The assistant LMM API endpoint for your region" It should be LLM
about 3 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Add a Search Field to the Font Selection Dropdown in Planning Analytics Workspace

Dear team, Problem Statement Planning Analytics Workspace allows administrators to upload custom fonts via Administration → Excel and Customizations → Fonts. These fonts can then be selected in visualization properties, including text widgets, vie...
about 3 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Dynamic URL in Action button in PAW report

Action buttons in PAW currently accept only a hardcoded URL. This makes reports that rely on URL APIs hard to maintain, especially when the same report pattern is used across multiple clients and environments. Current limitation Every URL is stat...
about 5 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Create a grant to perform an MQT refresh

It would be beneficial to be able to issue a `GRANT REFRESH TABLE ON mqt TO xxx` command, rather than having to transfer ownership of the MQT, use a stored procedure, or grant the `DBCTRL` privilege—which is overly broad. This would make it possib...
about 5 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Customer is requesting the ability to copy transmission and channel defeinitions from exisitng definitions when configuring FTM

Improves the user experience when configuring transmission and channel definitions, much like the PCC definitions.  The user can select an existing transmission definition, make a copy, then make minor alterations, and save.
about 8 hours ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Submitted

REST API to replace the Java RMI item and image retrieval API

Remote RMI is a bespoke interface for general use APIs.  Customers are asking for a modern API set for retrieving transaction data to include images for Check Processing via a REST API.
about 8 hours ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Submitted

UNIVERSAL ADVANCED META BIO-SMART-ATOMIC (UAM-BSA) An AI-Assisted Human Research Safety, Evidence Integrity, and Independent Accountability Framework

Universal Advanced Meta Bio-Smart-Atomic Mission: Develop an independently auditable technology framework that protects human research participants, verifies authorization and informed consent, preserves evidence, monitors safety, and strengthens ...
about 13 hours ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted