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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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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.

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XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

Copy everything from one environment to another, except data

Currently, when refreshing a lower environment from production, we are required to bring production data into the lower environment, which poses a data security risk for our company. If OpenPages offered a tool or option to export everything from ...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Ability to display Pop-up message while moving from one workflow stage to another

IBM OpenPages native workflow capability allow users to configure a workflow for several business use-cases (e.g. RCSA). User can setup different stages (e.g. Scoping, Risk Assessment etc.) and setup actions to move from one stage to another. Work...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Under review

List of Necessary Improvements Post-Audit: Action Steps

Following an audit, the customer needs to correct the following non-compliant points (see attached document):- Rendered decoration images (page 7) - Identical or non-explicit button labels out of context (page 18) - Menus or modals not detected by...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Problem while using custom cards API

Hi team, I am raising this case on behalf of customer. We discussed with Zen services and provided below but customer requirement is different from default features Provided solution: Those api routes are only used for the homepage and do not have...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

CHCCLP – Password Encryption

The credentials are given for datastore connection is in clear text format which is a risk. CDC should have a mechanism to encrpyt and use the encrypted password in CHCCLP.
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Private / direct endpoint support for watsonx.data Presto and Milvus services

Several other database and storage services support private / direct endpoints within IBM Cloud. There are architectures for watsonx.data that do not need to leave the IBM Cloud from a network perspective and should be able to rely on private / di...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Under review