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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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Issue an appropriate message instead of a dump in case of 00E20015 occurrence

A clear DSN... message indicating the problem ASCB is more helpful than a dump. The asid (in R2) could be already another ASCB, so this is ambiguous. The dump could be supressed in my opinion. We have such a lot of cases in which we are forced to ...
41 minutes ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support Cursor-Based Naming for Result Sets in DB2 REST Services

Purpose with idea To make it possible for clients to identify what reultsets would correspond to what rest-schema. To avoid risk of incorrect mapping if the number of resultsets may differ at different calls from the DB2 rest endpoint returned dat...
about 1 hour ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Custom Enrichment Objective

Allow a custom enrichment objective (example from a notebook job or other process data asset) that allows the enrichment of custom attributes, which can either be pre-defined at design time or created dynamically at runtime during the enrichment p...
about 2 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing). ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Promp...
about 5 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Restrict access to WSDL

We are using web services inside IPM and we managed to restrict access to authenticated users that means users with an active account defined within IPM. But we didn't success in restricting access to wsdl file that stay public and may cause a sec...
about 8 hours ago in Product Master 0 Submitted

Add/enable connection from DataStage to confluent cloud topics having OAUTH support for schema registry.

We are trying to connect to confluent cloud topic from on-prem Datastage with kafka connector used in jobs.To connect for confluent cloud topic we select OAUTHBEARER property in kafka connector. According to our use case, we are facing issue while...
about 9 hours ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

The ability to restrict software features on a per-user basis.

Operations will be stabilized if administrators can configure the system to prevent users from accessing features that cause instability.
about 9 hours ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Please release the FIX PACK.

The FIX application process will be simplified for end-users and administrators
about 9 hours ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Download option for the analyze section

I suggest adding an option to download the data (all conversations, requests, ...) as an XLSX data as we need to process this data in our own software. This is very frustrating that you don't have this option. Also, the UI is really a mess with ma...
about 10 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Bulk configure ODBC data sources and credentials for jobs

Currently, when creating a job, the ODBC data sources and credentials in the "ODBC Data Source" field must be configured individually, which is time-consuming. We would like the ability to select multiple data sources and configure them in bulk (o...
about 14 hours ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Submitted