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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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Download option for the analyze section

I suggest adding an option to download the data (all conversations, requests, ...) as an XLSX data as we need to process this data in our own software. This is very frustrating that you don't have this option. Also, the UI is really a mess with ma...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

Bulk configure ODBC data sources and credentials for jobs

Currently, when creating a job, the ODBC data sources and credentials in the "ODBC Data Source" field must be configured individually, which is time-consuming. We would like the ability to select multiple data sources and configure them in bulk (o...
3 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Submitted

Report References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Add Zeppelin notebooks

zeppelin notebooks have a number of nice features like built in graph capability, and it also lets you mix multiple interpreters into a single notebook. Yes you can do a lot of this with jupyter, but there will be those that have a large number of...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER of STOGROUP

Would like additional flexibility to change storage options without taking outages. First situation, we had a special storage group defined with a specific STORCLAS that was used to isolate a specific subset of data. That isolation is no longer ne...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOAD / ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE COPY YES and LOB improvements

In an OLTP / TSA HADR environment .. When using the COPY YES on ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE it uses LOAD under the covers. When LOBs are involved howere it writes out the full buffer 64k up to several 100k is written out per column/per row to a file which is...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ability to assign emails to Groups or have GDLs and enable CC functionality

Currently OpenPages doesn't have the ability to assign an email to a group. If a workflow stage is assigned to a group, the email goes out to all the individual users, instead it would be nice to have the ability to send it to a GDL. Additionally,...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Sample job for REORG of catalog and directory

We maintain a partly homegrown job to reorg the catalog (DSNDB06) and directory (DSNDB01) table spaces. It is built using sample job DSNTIJCV. It is hard to maintain that job when the catalog and directory changes. Just as Db2 deliver a sample job...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support Db2 on Red Hat OpenShift

Customers at the TAB meeting in Malta asked if/when Db2 support for Red Hat OpenShift will be available. With the IBM acquisition of Red Hat, support for OpenShift will become more and more important.
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Upload files to Risk Lists with conditions for each record

When uploading a file into a Risk List, you can only specify the input attribute value. A comment and a label can be included but it applies to the entire list. We would like to be able to upload a comma delimited file to include all attributes in...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Under review