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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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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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Request for configuration parameter “HNAME_MAX_NUM” to limit the number of hname conditions in RES_REQ.

In production environment, automated scripts (for example, Synopsys CDPL) generate very long RES_REQ strings with thousands of (hname!='hostX') conditions in the select clause, which has led to mbatchd/mbschd performance degradation and scheduling...
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Add the option to pick the document language and support table and image extraction

This proposal addresses a critical need for expanding the document ingestion capabilities of our product, which is particularly relevant to our clients with non-English data. Currently, our UDI feature is limited to an English-only OCR model. This...

Integration with Okta as IDP to add IBM MDM using SAML

integration with Okta as IDP to add IBM MDM using SAML
10 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Handling commas in RDS codes

When uploading codes with commas in the code, the RDS will export with \\ to manage the comma. The \\ need to be replaced with a double quote to align with csv formatting best practices.
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Paintbrush tool for PAW Dashboards UI/UX

Saves time refinding the correct font, size, colour formatting. Simply apply all using the paintbrush.
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Paintbrush format tool for dashboards/UI

Saves time, simply format once and appy brush.
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Azure Blob storage on SUSE Linux for Db2 12.1.3

We would like to configure our backup to use Microsoft Azure Blob. Do you have step by steps how to configure CATALOG STORAGE ACCESS and use DB2REMOTE ? It seems it work for S3 storage on Linux SUSE, but it doesn't work with Microsoft Azure Blob o...
10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Request for Individual Term Approval in Bulk Load Process

Hi, Currently, when we import all terms in a single batch, the workflow processes them as one step—either all are approved or all are rejected. This does not allow us to approve or reject specific terms as necessary. How it should work: When we lo...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Enable queryValue() and queryValues() for Report Queries and Data Items

As of today, both macro functions queryValue() and queryValues() can only be used with direct source paths (e.g., package or data module). It would be extremely beneficial for report authors if these functions could also reference report queries a...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Sequence number, row number of the record

When using MySQL DB as a source and in case of multiple transactions done in the same commit cycle, there is no way to know the sequence of executed transactions. In the journal control fields, there is a commit cycle id (CCID), this is same for m...
19 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration