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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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Include transform feature from Natural to Java

Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

Usage Statics for Workspace Assets

Would like to capture usage statistic of dashboards and other PAW assets, specifically last time accessed, last accessed by. Ideally, we'd capture all usage statistics over a set time period and have the ability to reset those counters.
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Handling multiple locations of backups

Current limit allows for only 32 paths to be provided for running a restore. That is a problem if full backups and all the differential ones are run in multiple streams and in different paths. For example you have a full backup in 16 streams and t...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Certificate authentication for DB2 LUW

In a heterogeneous environment, certificate authentication enables access to numerous services; among other things, it should also be possible for DB2 clients to connect to a DB2 database and to grant the user identified by the certificate the app...
10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

SFTP Client Origin: Additional Offset Management Configuration Options

The current offset behavior of the SFTP Client origin is based on two checks after a file is processed: The stage stores the filename and modification timestamp of the last processed file in the offset. When new files arrive, the stage evaluates e...
21 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

WCAZ SAAS must be HIPPA certified or customers in the Healthcare Industry cannot leverage it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated

HIPPA certification is mandatory for any IBM SAAS service used by most of our Healthcare customers. Given that the LLMs do not interact with data, the certification process should hopefully be easy for the team, while opening up this market/industry.
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Hide Public Filters

There should be a way to hide public filters from a grid view. Filters used in task views do not always need to be displayed to a user so these should have the option to be hidden. Controlled via a group access rather than individual user or enabl...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Improvement to eliminate or manage the "Transparent Button" overlay issue in TM1 Web/PAW

In some TM1 Web/Planning Analytics Workspace screens, we frequently encounter a UI element labeled as "Transparent Button" overlapping other functional buttons or components. This ghost element seems to serve no clear purpose, and even when delete...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 5 Is a defect

Expand the logger functionalities for TI parameters and parameter values

Dear IBM team, we need the possibility to get the information concerning TI process parameters and parameter values. On the one hand it is possible to retrieve this information through own codes in a TI directly, however, it would be smoother to s...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 4 Future consideration