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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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Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

CHCCLP - Return Code Handling in Mainframe and LUW platform

Provide return codes for individual CHCCLP instructions and add features to CHCCLP script to evaluate return code (e.g., if...then...else...) before proceeding with subsequent instructions. Additionally, include an option to set return codes back ...
4 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Parity of watsonx.data with Databricks and Snowflake Engines (Focus on Performance)

Dear IBM Product Team, I am writing to propose an urgent enhancement request for our watsonx.data service, specifically addressing the discrepancies in parity and performance between its implementation with Presto Java and Presto C++. Parity: Curr...
6 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

Include a pre-provisioned Object storage included in instance and allow this storage to be growable for a fee.

When you provision a SaaS instance of watsonx.data, a default S3/COS/?? 400GB storage should be included and configured with the instance for ease of use. This storage should be growable from to as much as they want for additional fee.
about 2 years ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

CDC capture enhancement for "catch up" mode.

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. In order to bette...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

watsonx.data SaaS bucket activation - move this permission to User role from Admin role

For our testing around multi-tenant watsonx.data, for the most part we want users to be able to bring their own data sources (buckets and databases), and simply use the other resources of watsonx.data on IBM Cloud without direct management. Hence,...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

See characteristics of query engine

See via the interface the characteristics of the query engines: number of workers, cpu, ram...
about 2 years ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

Support WITH RECURSIVE in PrestoDB (watsonx.data)

PrestoDB in watsonx.data doesn't support WITH RECURSIVE statement which is a blocker for selling watsonx.data to some of our potential customers. It would be important to have it supported as other data lakehouse solutions support it. For example ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.data 1 Future consideration