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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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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

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...
5 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
6 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

SQLOpt Provide AP index advisor and query rewrite function

Hi dear team, In current DB2 zAI SQLOpt component, we have recommendation only on AP. we wish index advisor and query rewrite can be added in recommendation analysis. Thanks Yuli
8 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

SQLOpt Provide AP visualization ability and explanation on recommendation

Hi dear team, In current DB2 AI for z/OS SQL optimization component, we can check AP recommendations, with savings, and SQL statement etc. but it's not easy to understand AP detail with columns. can you please provide visualization ability on each...
8 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Central location for cpd-cli-workspace directory and logging of the cpd-cli

When running the cpd-cli command a "cpd-cli-workspace" directory is created in the current working directory. Looking for an environmental variable that can be used to define where the "cpd-cli-workspace" directory is created when running the cpd-...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Improve results when using Batch deploy mode for Machine Learning Models

After you create a machine learning model (using AutoAI, for example), you can choose to deploy it in online or batch mode. When someone runs the Batch deploy mode against a dataset (a CSV file, for example), the results usually show only the pred...
13 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Setting Variables, such as style or render, should be available on multi-selected items

If I want to apply the same attributes to multiple items in a report, then I can select the many items and apply the property.For example, if I want to apply the same conditional style, font to a number of list columns then I can select all the ap...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support DDL replication for watsonx.data through change log business goal

Customer's RFI requested for DDL replication for heterogeneous database type (ie. Oracle to DB2, pgsql to wxd). This is a important feature because they have thousands of daily DDL operations in their production environments and cannot manually tr...
22 days ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

Consistent Set Behavior in PAfE: Enable Dropdown for Unnamed Sets Too

Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, I wanted to share feedback on an inconsistent behavior in PAfE reports regarding sets, which affects usability for many users. Current Behavior: For a named set, clicking a cell directly shows a dropdown list of e...
14 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted