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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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Expose Data Gate Table Replication Status in Db2 LUW Catalog and/or Administrative Views

Applications using IBM Db2 Data Gate typically connect directly to the target Db2 LUW database and do not maintain connectivity to the source Db2 for z/OS system. Currently, table-level replication metadata is available through Data Gate APIs and ...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Allow Replication of a Subset of Columns from Db2 for z/OS using Db2 Data Gate

Allow customers to define which columns of a Db2 for z/OS table should be replicated to Db2 Data Gate, reducing storage requirements, replication overhead, and unnecessary data exposure. Today, when a table is added to Db2 Data Gate using the SYSP...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Create CCA MCP Server builder using workflows UI.

Banco do Brasil (BdB) is one of the world's largest Watson Assistant users and is actively migrating their customer-facing virtual assistant to watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) using the Customer Care Agent (CCA) model. Building CCA solutions today requi...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Support CRON expressions for DataStage job schedules in the UI

We schedule our DataStage ETL jobs from the UI. The scheduler only offers minutely, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly, and each field accepts a single value. Common patterns cannot be defined: every N hours (for example every 8 hours) several ...

Report of Users by License Type

The licensing scheme we have with OpenPage includes license types such as General User and Single Function User. Therefore, we require an automated report that provides visibility into how many licenses we are using for each type, along with detai...
1 day ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration Submitted

Customize plan notification content and configure the email sender

Dear team, Summary Plan notifications currently use fixed content and formatting, and administrators cannot configure the sender identity used for notification emails. This limits the ability to integrate Plan notifications into customer-specific ...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Automatic reminder and overdue notifications for plan tasks

Dear team, Summary Plan tasks have defined start and due dates, but users are not automatically notified when a task is approaching its due date or becomes overdue. Reminders can currently be sent manually by the plan owner. Plans therefore provid...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support recurring plans and tasks including Data Scope updates

Dear team, Summary Plans and tasks that repeat every month, quarter or other defined period currently have to be duplicated and adjusted manually. There is no built-in mechanism to define a plan or task as recurring and automatically create the ne...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Reset an entire plan in one action in Applications and Plans

Dear team, Summary In Planning Analytics Workspace, a plan cannot currently be reset with a single action. Plan owners and co-owners can reset submissions for individual tasks via Manage Submissions, but there is no plan-level action to reset all ...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

zDBA as a Unified Modular UI Platform for IBM Z Database Products (Db2 & IMS)

Currently there are multiple standalone WebUI products, each with teir own: - Installation process (SMP/E, USS, WAS Server) - Configuration management (Keystore, RACF, TLS, Ports) - Security maintenance (PTF cycle, certificate rotation) - Migratio...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review