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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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"Continue" vs "Continue & Close Tab"

Currently, when a pop up or confirmation window appears, the options are "Continue" and "Continue & Close Tab." This is redundant and confusing for submitters. These options should be customizable or able to be streamlined into one option is a...
5 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Workflow Lifecycle View for Submitters

As a submitter, I should be able to view an interactive lifecycle view of the workflow where I can see how many steps I have completed, what task I am in, any sub tasks/approvals, and how much of the lifecycle is left to remail. This should be ava...
5 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Task View: Customization

The Task view should allow for customization of the Chart at the top and the columns included in the chart. Different enterprises have different variables that may be most important to those performing the tasks.
5 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Ability to Edit Business Unit Associations

As a use case submitter, I should be able to remove the associated business unit and select a new one WITHOUT the intervention of an admin. The current process requires admin intervention because if you allow them to delete the association, they a...
5 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Impersonate Other Roles

We would like the ability to impersonate other roles. As a business admin team, we need functionality that allows us to wholistically test everyone's experiences so we understand functionality and capabilities across the board and solve for differ...
5 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Enable dropping tablespace partitions without changing to data capture none

With the ability to convert tablespaces from PBR to PBG and back, we are now able to drop partitions in both PBRs and PBGs. However, this requires that we switch off data capture on the table for the duration of the change.As we are using CDC to r...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Unrestricted context window for Mistral Large and Llama Models for watsonx.ai Software/ on-prem

One of the differentiators of Mistral large is its large context window. In watsonx however, we restrict this context window for Mistral and Llama models because of performance reasons, see here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/w-and-w/2.0.x?t...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Functionality already exists

Sharing of admin privileges for skills

Currently, only the originator of a skill can update/delete that skill. This is the case in both the catalog and in a customer's tenent. If the skill needs to be modified by someone else, that is not possible. Recommend 1. the originator has the a...
about 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

Support Kerberos credentials in Data Refinery

Currently as per the most recent versions of Cloud Pak for Data we can't use our connection to Apache Hive on Cloudera 7 because of the fact that we strictly use Kerberos authentication there. We can't use simple passwords. This makes it so that c...
12 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Option to view number of jobs running on the platform over the period.

We request this enhancement as there is currently no option to view the number of jobs running on platform over a given period. This feature is available on IBM DS 11.7 Operations Console and is useful for effectively monitoring and managing job c...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted