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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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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Make the Journal Control Field &JOBUSER which is available on z/OS CDC available for use with Remote CDC

This Journal Control Field is one we currently use in our Audit subscriptions so that we can easily track down a change that may have occurred outside of a 'normal' production process. We are looking to transition to using Remote CDC as the log sc...
29 minutes ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add TCPIP DROP to CANCEL THREAD FORCE to clear orphan threads from DB2 incase of TCPIP abend

Orphan threads can be cancelled with CANCEL THREAD FORCE. No need to issue TCPIP DROP separately.
about 2 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Simplify the CDC software upgrade process

Currently, we experience down-time at CDC when we need to perform maintenance on the Linux server or on the CDC agent software. Ideas we propose to increase availability of CDC are:• A replication engine should automatically continue running on a ...
about 3 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

Exclude books used in Plans and Applications from the Recents list on home page

Possibility for books used in Plans and Applications to be excluded from end users' Recents list in PAW home page (to prevent security and maintenance related issues). One of our customers has a PA environment for which the task workflow and...
about 7 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Request Full Compatible GSKIT with HCL INFORMIX SERVER

With the newest HCL Informix 14.10.FC11W1X2 it is neccesary to set ENV 'ISI_GSK_FIPS_MODE=OFF' on every IBM CSDK GSKIT Client to get a working SSL Connection to a HCL INFORMIX 14.10.FC11W1X2 OPENSSL SERVER. A GSKIT is needed where it is not necces...
about 7 hours ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Allow Object Field Deletion

We believe having a feature in Object Types menu to delete a certain field would be useful for the fields that are created with the wrong field type, and the fields that are no longer in use. We faced this issue several times with different custom...
about 8 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Submitted

Can remove default environment template of Python Spark runtime

When installed, Spark runtime comes with a default template of Python 3.10. Our client want to remove this template as they don't want users using this template. Users should be capable of removing these templates.
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Maker/Checker role assignment for Business Term approval

In a business term approval process , when a maker(workflow initiator) add user/user groups as a stewards(approvers) for any business terms ,current UI displays all users without verifying whether those users has reviewer role or higher permission...
about 14 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Add more than one data class in the same column

At Bradesco Bank, there is more than one type of information for the same column. We need IBM CP4D (IKC) to allow us to add more than one data class to the same column to solve this problem. Today IBM CP4D (IKC) only allows adding 1 dataclass per ...
about 20 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Add the ability to whitelist by IP by Organization to Control Hub

This ask is for Control Hub upon login of a particular organization, to check a configuration for that organization that the request is from a particular IP address. Ideally, each web request to Control Hub (or maybe even SDC) would run through a ...
about 22 hours ago in StreamSets 1 Submitted