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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.

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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

ELIGIBLE WITH FAILBACK

If customers need FAILBACK capability back to Db2 in case SQL has an issue in accelerator, they currently use ENABLE WITH FAILBACK option. However, the routing criteria of ENABLE option includes cost factors calculated by optimizer. Customers want...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Applications: Configure default action of the Navigation Pane (Collapsed or Expanded)

Hi team, I'd like to attach single PAW asset (book - landing page) with the navigation (action) buttons ) to the Application tile and therefore I'd like the side Application Navigation Pane to be collapsed (or hidden) by default. This approach wil...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support macOS and Linux on QMF for Workstation 12

QMF for Workstation v12 and above only runs on Windows OS. Provide support for running QMF for Workstation v12 on macOS and Linux platforms as well. This allows full functionality to be provided to users on these platforms.
almost 6 years ago in QMF for z/OS 12 Not under consideration

export and import function on DB2ZAI SQL optimization AP recommendation

Hello, Here is an idea on export and import function on DB2ZAI SQL optimization AP recommendation. it's mostly on static packages. Reason behind is to test AP recommendation in lower environment before the real usage in production. By explain or e...
7 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Ability to delete connections

With 30-june-2025 release users are able to view, add, filter and edit connections but cannot DELETE it. Today, many users end up creating connections by mistake, which generates a huge list of connections, making it difficult to locate the correc...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

Request to increase the maximum number of test data entries that can be uploaded to the Evaluation Studio feature

[Request]Because we would like to evaluate with around 4,000 data entries in this project, we kindly request that the upper limit be modified to allow at least 10,000 entries to be processed. I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know ...
5 months ago in watsonx.governance 9

Number value field type in Questionnaire Template

We are in the process of creating a questionnaire assessment for the quarterly review of application assets. While we have designed the template, we are encountering challenges in creating a question as a number type. Currently, in OpenPages, we h...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Under review

Planning Analytics on Cloud: Provide report of disk space utilization

In Planning Analytics Workspace, and this could be part of the Drive Explorer interface, provide more details associated with disk space utilization. The percentage used is shown in PAW Administration for the agent, but you cannot tell which folde...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

A Dedicated Prompt Page for Dashboards - Let's face it, the banner filters are limited

All Cognos Analytics Dashboard users would benefit from this change, but here is my personal experience as a Senior Cognos Developer: 1. Cognos end users within my organisation have started using other apps like Power BI, instead of Cognos Analyti...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted