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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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Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

TLS encryption between Access Server (on Linux/Windows) and CDC Db2 for i

We need TLS encryption between Access Server (on Linux/Windows) and CDC Db2 for i due to company security restrictions otherwise we can't use CDC with Db2 for i.
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Allow to query and stop an object in one go to avoid STOPP

HSM allows to move DB2 page sets by stopping them and copying them and then starting the page sets again. HSM does this by DIS DB(...) SP(...) USE and a subsequent STO DB(...) SP(...). If in the small timing window between the DIS command and the ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Two buttons, "Design" and "Implement," on the chatbot to finalize the proper design with promt context before proceeding with implementation.

Currently, the chatbot has a single "GO" button to send prompts and receive results. When users request prompts like generating a complete project, the process combines both design and code implementation. Users refine the prompt iteratively to ac...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Future consideration

Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Accessibility Enhancement: Provide accessible name and accessible description for scroll bar arrows on visualizations

Requesting to add accessible name and accessible description for the intent of the scroll bar arrows on the visualization. The screen tip indicating scroll up or scroll down when hovering over the arrows will enable screen reader audience to under...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Consistent Notation and Automatic Indentation for TI Snippets & Autocomplete in PAW

Dear IBM team, In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW, current version 2.1.16), there is still inconsistency in notation and formatting between autocomplete suggestions and inserted code snippets in the TurboIntegrator (TI) editor. Additionally, sni...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Default formatting for Universal Reports

Universal reports come with default conditional formatting. Would like some control over those defaults, specifically we often times don't want the repeat labels to be "transparent" or white font.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enhance rule based business term assignment to allow column name and the column's parent asset name to be specified in a single rule.

Please review the following slack posts for further details. https://ibm-analytics.slack.com/archives/CMBN9DB9C/p1765407815499829 As Oliver Suhre outlined in the above slack post thread: "To add this functionality, we could introduce a new propert...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0