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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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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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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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Enable alternative authentication methods for S3 buckets

We’re currently working with a client on an opportunity that impacts multiple products, including watsonx.data, CP4D, Data Virtualization, and Data Gate. The client is eager to adopt our lakehouse solution but has stringent security requirements t...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Sort engines by alphabetical order in the datastage console

We created an engine spdsengqlf05 before the engine spdsengqlf04 and they seem to appear in creation order (or xmeta database order) in the console indode the drop down engine list at top right of the screen.
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Add "Last Execution Status " in the Scheduler Grid View

The "Last Execution Status" field is currently not visible in the Grid View under Solution Configuration - Scheduler. By making this field visible in the grid view, it will provide users with a convenient way to check the last execution status of ...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Enable/Disable job schedule with CPDCTL or API

Case: TS016318008 Our EPAM team is build the automation of stop/start inbound jobs' schedulers with CPDCTL. While we found even the job on UI shows no schedule, it still runs everyday with schedule. We tried to get the job information with API and...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Provide Option to Run Calculation on specific Record

Provide Option to Run Calculation on specific Record. sometime Bulk calculation fail or it fail for some particular record, Need option to OPA user to run such calculation on specific record. Currently option is too flip value and set it back.
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Cobol to Java Transformation - Suppress Missing Copybook Error Message when Copybooks are not Required.

When preparing the Cobol to Java transformation, an Exclamation error message may be displayed indicating that copybooks are missing. “COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformat...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Allow the ability to set the management, storage, and data classes the SPUFI panels.

We have a security policy requiring us to encrypt all possible 'Data at Rest'. We use the IBM solution called Pervasive Encryption (PE). Our storage team has defined SMS Data Classes that can be used to allocate encrypted datasets. In order ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow REPLACE external SQL SP with Native

Currently, CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE in DB2 13 has a limitation that " If a procedure exists with the specified name, the existing procedure must be a native SQL procedure". Migration from external SQL stored procedures to Native SQL stored proc...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Allow Encrypted Connection for IBM Debug Tool and Unified Debugger

Reviewing the connection with the Db2 Unified debugger, it was determined it was not using an encrypted port. All tools (mainframe or otherwise) should support full encryption over ATL-TLS.
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review