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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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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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Add a File Size column to the knowledge documents list

Currently, in Knowledge → Manage knowledge → Documents, the interface lists all uploaded files but does not show their file size, even though the size is already returned by the backend API (file_size field inside each document’s metadata). Displa...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release
513 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review

SPSS Modeler Command Line password prompt

The command prompt dialogue does not output an error if the modeler stream runs into one. Would there be a way to have the command prompt output the error from modeler? Or if possible instead: I am creating a logfile from within the Python script ...
7 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

please add more columns for accelerator

Team, Can we please add more columns in the attached screen for IBM Unified Experience for zos. 1.Acceleration 2.Replication 3.Latency 4.Status This allows us to get a consolidated view of all accelerators.We also have a case TS021265688 opened on...
7 days ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Submitted

TEMPORAL TABLES & LBAC

We use system temporal tables (history) for business data. This data will be maintained be different customers. Each customer should just maintain and see his data and not the data of other customers. But we are allowed to see all the data from al...
15 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

A setting to enable frozen column headers in grid view so that column titles remain visible while users scroll down

When users scroll down in the any grid view, column headers disappear from the screen. This makes it difficult for users to understand which data belongs to which column and negatively impacts the user experience. It is recommended to freeze (make...
15 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Needs more information

ability to Recover multiple tablespaces to last full copy in a single statement

The current Recovery Utility syntax does not allow multiple tablespaces to be recovered to their own respective last full image copy in a single recover statement. This can be useful for resetting test environments or even in production for a pre ...
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted