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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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  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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Make RESYNC port secured

Why is it useful?Making the DB2 resync port secure will protect it from getting hacked or allowing unsecured connections to a port that could be used to serve data from the mainframe for nefarious purposes beyond two-phase commit work. Who would b...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

LDAP for MC - Support authentication through sAMAccountName and for MS ActiveDirectory DC as LDAP Server

In our environment we typically login to Active Directory with our sAMAccountName. By default the LDAP.properties file has authUserIDAttribute as CN but the CN does not look like our usual username (or sAMAccountName). As of now sAMAccountName is ...
almost 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Future consideration

Negative Example Phrases for Action Triggers

Currently, actions in Watsonx Assistant allow one or more example phrases to trigger the action. In some cases, the addition of a specific word or phrase to these example phrases is an entirely different user intent. Adding negative example phrase...
2 months ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

Why is it useful? We have some legacy COBOL files that errors out with parsing error since it follows a different coding pattern for comments. The comments are included between REMARKS. and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in COBOL program. Currently, Manta d...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Ability to hide the workflow initiation message

Ability to disable the flows initiation message so it does not show in the main chat.
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

Call agent from watsonx Assistant

Ability to call an agent from watsonx Assistant and pass inputs to it and get return values from it.
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

OpenPages Scheduler - allow client to set max concurrent jobs and display any that are queued.

Currently the system has a hard wired limit of 5 concurrently executing schedule jobs. You can start a sixth one but the system actually queues it to start when one of the others completes. However, the system does not provide any display to show ...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Future consideration

CP4D and its various components are requesting too many resources

This is a behaviour we have seen at various customers where CP4D is requesting very high amount of cpu and memory and the real usage is very low. At this precise customer, they have an OpenShift cluster of 120 cpu for a staging environment. The re...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Ability to remove certain buttons from top ribbon in pawbook

We have noticed that the ability to remove certain buttons from top ribbon is only available for books having cube views but not with books having websheet. This keeps us away from providing uniform capability for end users. We have combination of...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

UNLOAD Utility

The ability to UNLOAD a table (including using SQL) is required. Additionally, the ability to UNLOAD from an image COPY is required. We need the same type of capability that is available in Db2 for z/OS. We copy/migrate (via LOAD) data from one en...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review