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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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Add support for data retention for OpenPages

EU financial regulators now have stringent requirements around data retention and other regulators elsewhere are likely to follow soon. Such data retention requirements specify that certain customer/seller data must be deleted after a period of ti...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Under review

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...
2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Revision of the DMC installation

We're trying to install DMC in our environment, but we're having some issues with it: - documentation for the Linux installation is not complete - why is the db pagesize for the reprodb 8 k and uses EXTENDED_ROW_SZ? Db pagesize 32 without EXTENDED...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Customize Field Displayed in My Tasks

Ability to customize to allow add/removing of fields on the My Tasks list/grid will help prioritize & manage tasks. Currently, the view is missing fields that would help users quickly identify what is needed to be known about the task without ...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 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...
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 ...
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...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Pipeline AutoSave Option Disablement at Project Level CP4D

AutoSave Pipeline: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= It's observed that there's no explicit commit option for Pipeline (Sequencer). And by default, the Auto save option is enabled in CP4D. A manual effort is needed to disable the property at every pipeline le...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Applications and Plans: Delegation when people are out of office

There is the need for task delegation when people are on leave in order for the task to be completed and submitted, without the substitute individual having to submit / complete the task at any other point in time except when the 1st in line is on...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

Applications and Plans: Access the plan / tasks from the Overview pane

Currently PAW Plans and Applications only have the option to work in the task from the drop down list in the working view. We would like the option to launch the working view of the task from the Overview landing page as well.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review