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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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DB2 WLM for java21, add a way to specify the complete directory and filename for stdout and stderr

This is how it worked for DB2 WLM for java8, we specified directory and filename using DD statements: JAVAOUT, JAVAERR.
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Needs more information

A setting to enable frozen column headers in grid view so that column titles remain visible while users scroll down

When users scroll down in the any grid view, column headers disappear from the screen. This makes it difficult for users to understand which data belongs to which column and negatively impacts the user experience. It is recommended to freeze (make...
15 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Needs more information

Mobile app integration and functionality

Agentic understanding of the user environment including mobile functionality and intuitive-ness.
29 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

Support couchbase as a source for data catalog and lineage

Adding couchbase as an additional connector allows more clients to find it easy to make a switch to using watsonx.data intelligence for their data governance and lineage needs.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

The ability to specify RBAC for API credentials and to restrict creation of API credentials

As an admin maintaining StreamSets, I don't want end users to create token on their own without the consent from the admin team. The entire control of creating, managing, deleting the API key should ideally be with the admin team. Here, the requir...
2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

Restrict chat UI based on whitelist of IPs/subnet on-prem

Customers need the ability to specify (allow list) IP Address ranges (CIDRs) from which their tenants can be accessed. We do this in IBM Cloud via IAM/Account IP Address restrictions and implementing this in AWS (https://watson-orchestrate.ideas.i...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Needs more information

Automatically clean up old job instances

CBRE has lots of old job instances as a result of frequent Kubernetes redeployments to deal with a separate product defect related to jobs being stuck in an ACTIVATING state. They were trying to delete them iteratively through the UI but kept hitt...
2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

Ability to edit the knowledge generation configuration in the UI

I have found that the formatting of agent responses can only be achieved effectively through the generation configuration knowledge settings in the ADK, rather than through the behavioural prompts or guidelines. This means live demos are always go...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Needs more information

Future consideration for chat

they are some missing interactive buttons- copy- Rerun conversation- Download according to the extension- Evaluation monitoring o👍or not ok- Files attachements
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

bconf supports to update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file

regarding TS020747969, we wanted update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information