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


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Azure Blob support with EntraID

General Motors leveraging DataStage have an increasing number of their users moving their applications from on-premises to Azure. With that strategic move, GM needs support for connecting to Azure Blob Storage for their DataStage ETL / ELT jobs. M...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Logs translated to english

Updates 03/28/2024. Two requirements - (1) This is clarified by ING few weeks back they want the user interface in a language other than whats set in Browser Locale. Engineering researching and would do some PoC. May be large effort and a larger i...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Under review

Move functionality to also move children

When selecting an object, a risk for example, and using the MOVE button on the grid view to move the risk to a different folder, it would be nice to be able to have the option to move its children ( in this case controls) to that same folder as we...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable Theme Background Color Change on OpenPages Header

It would be really cool to allow a custom theme background color on the Header. I think someone mentioned this in the context of using the header for different types of alerting or bulletein e.g. making it red to draw attention. This would be the ...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Introduce a parametric filter in calculation

When you have to select Input field you can find it in a related obj or in a Preference ... but when you try to filter the related records by an enumerate filed, you can only select one or more “specific value” BUT YOU CAN NOT FILTER record where ...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

WatsonX for IBM i

An generative AI LLM helping write code for RPGLE would be huge! Codeium and CoPilot are nice, but you would think that IBM could come up with a better product!

USING LOADINCURSOR for XML COLUMN even nullable

We have a table with a XML column defined NOT NULL. We periodically transfer data from production to preproduction using unload/load.Because XML column has value nobody have to read after having transfered data applications execute a sql update fo...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Recovery Expert option to externalise the Recovery Health asset list (Image Copy and Log Dataset names) in Batch and Online

Recovery Expert has a validation and Recovery Health option. As an extension to this option it will really help the user base if there is an option provided to externalise the Image Copies and the LOG datasets, as a list, that will be used for the...
5 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

CDC Management console: Prevent starting subscription when sub is locked

It is possible to start a subscription in a lock state. When a CHCCLP script tries to lock the subscription, the script fails ("Subscription Already Locked"). By preventing the start of a locked subscription, will prevent this.
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review