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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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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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Enable alternative authentication methods for S3 buckets

We’re currently working with a client on an opportunity that impacts multiple products, including watsonx.data, CP4D, Data Virtualization, and Data Gate. The client is eager to adopt our lakehouse solution but has stringent security requirements t...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Automatically perform actions when synchronisation is broken on DataGate

In Data Gate, every time someone executes a utility not supported by the product (such as a LOAD without LOG or a schema change in the table) the synchronisation is broken.In these cases, we have to redo an initial load. In other products such as ...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Cobol to Java Transformation - Suppress Missing Copybook Error Message when Copybooks are not Required.

When preparing the Cobol to Java transformation, an Exclamation error message may be displayed indicating that copybooks are missing. “COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformat...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Allow the ability to set the management, storage, and data classes the SPUFI panels.

We have a security policy requiring us to encrypt all possible 'Data at Rest'. We use the IBM solution called Pervasive Encryption (PE). Our storage team has defined SMS Data Classes that can be used to allocate encrypted datasets. In order ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow REPLACE external SQL SP with Native

Currently, CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE in DB2 13 has a limitation that " If a procedure exists with the specified name, the existing procedure must be a native SQL procedure". Migration from external SQL stored procedures to Native SQL stored proc...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow free text field to be search in Grid other than SystemDescription

Allow free text field to be search in Grid other than SystemDescription
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Allow Encrypted Connection for IBM Debug Tool and Unified Debugger

Reviewing the connection with the Db2 Unified debugger, it was determined it was not using an encrypted port. All tools (mainframe or otherwise) should support full encryption over ATL-TLS.
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Data Collector thread consuming CPU after closing preview

Faulty code, such as an infinite loop in a Groovy Evaluator stage, will not destroy threads after closing a pipeline preview. The lingering threads will consume CPU resources until the engine is restarted. The request for this Idea is to implement...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Expire API Tokens at a set number of days

The Lockheed Martin security team would like to see a feature to set an API token expiration. Ideally users will be required to put an expiration date when generating a token. Another option we would like to have is the ability to generate a repor...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Support for DCOLLECT in HLV loader.

Supporting DCOLLECT in HLV loader. First priority would be record type D(Active), B(Backups) & M(Migrated), but all types would be greatly appreciated.
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Under review