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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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Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Allow CREATE/REPLACE for users other than owner

Currently on Db2 LUW CREATE OR REPLACE is only allowed for the owner of a database object. CREATE OR REPLACE authorization should be opened up to allow create/replace by anyone who has the ability to drop the object and to create the object with a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

New cards on homepage - Categories where I have 'xyz' category role and My artifacts where I am added as a steward

1. There should be a card which shows categories where user has some category role added. Users should be able to select multiple category roles or create multiple category cards with different roles. 2. There should be a card which shows all the ...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

Be able to Add new Tab Icons in Dashboards

If you want to have several tabs in a dashobaord, you want to be able to add you own custom icons that matches what you normally use in your business and not only som standard icons. I would like to be able to add new icons under the "Individual t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Cloud Pak for Data - Watson Pipelines - Add Undostack as a drop down list

Currently in a Watson Pipeline if you want to undo 5 Steps, then you have to 1: know how many steps to go back 2: click on the undo button n times As discussed with the dev team, this should be improved to offer an arrow-down next to the undo/redo...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Allow user to save and deploy Turicreate based Coreml models.

Allow user to save and deploy Turicreate based Coreml models in watson machine learning.
about 7 years ago in Watson Machine Learning 3 Not under consideration

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

About the use of Azure storage service from Modeler Client

I was able to browse the text file on OneDrive(*1) over networkdrive from SPSS Modeler Client. Please state in the release notes that file browsing using the WEBDAV(*2) is supported. (*1)Storage service provided by Microsoft (*2)Web-based Distr...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Planned for future release

Enable native uploading and processing of .log files to allow users and teams to submit application and system logs directly for analysis, troubleshooting, and insights.

.log files are a primary source of truth for understanding system behavior, failures, and performance issues, yet they are often excluded or require manual workarounds (zipping, renaming, copy-pasting). By supporting direct .log file uploads, user...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Wrap-around PBG table optimized for time-series data

Add support for a new type of PBG table/tablespace which is optimized for time series data, such as that used for journaling, logging, staging, history collection, etc. The main feature of this new PBG table/tablespace is that data is always inser...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review