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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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Change font color of Connection analysis

This is a request from a customer who makes heavy use of connection analysis. When displaying a large number of facet values ​​in connection analysis, the network graph becomes easier to read if the text color can be changed by facets. Also, for p...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

watsonx.data UI is too slow (both SW and Saas)

When accessing watsonx.data UI, particularly loading schemas and tables in Data Manager, it is expressed by many users (including clients), the response from the UI is awfully slow (to display the right information). This is not the case if connec...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

PAW - ability to execute chores / processes while not in edit mode

Ability for a user to not be in edit mode, and execute a chore / process (subject to security)
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

allow repack of TBLSpace extents

When a database has been created in a single (not root) dbspace and the dbspace has been greatly expanded with large tables that are subsequently moved to separate dbspace, the chunks used for original dbspace expansion may contain TBLSpace extent...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Shareable Subflows between assistants

Sharing subflows allows assistants to function modularly, essentially exposing the action API to a user building an action.
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Ability to categorize or hide custom visualizations

It seems all custom visualizations automatically fall under the bucket 'custom' in the visualization library. We would like the ability to categorize the custom visualizations into existing or new buckets. In our specific use case, we have added v...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Prevent VPSIZE(0) Bufferpool When Objects Exist

The idea would be to have a restriction or rule in place to prevent an alter bufferpool to VPSIZE(0) when objects exist. Setting it to zero when unintended can cause major problems.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

OOTB skill to execute script

Enhancement description * : OOTB skill to execute client side script other wise one has to always integrate an API (aws lambda/IBM Cloud functions etc.,) just to parse some output and it's an unnecessary API call. Solution *: OOTB skill to execute...
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

In Pafe Slicing from the Cube Viewer should have more options or configurable defaults.

At the moment when slicing from the Pafe cube viewer you always get a worksheet added to the existing book. When slicing direct from a view in the task pane you get multiple options (new sheet, new book, at selected cell). We would prefer to be ab...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration