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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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Manta COBOL scanner should support termination statement.

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Planned for future release

Manta COBOL scanner should support Mainframe utilities like IDCAMS, SORT, IKJEFT1B, CAFCP, IEFBR14, and PCDMULTK

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that int...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Support EXEC CICS statements in COBOL scanner

Background: we have requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that intera...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

We want to cancel all Db2 THREADS with one command in a Db2 Datasharing Member.

Today we must cancel any single thread. During a Db2 migration or shutdown you must cancel the Db2 threads to stop Db2.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Feature Store Functionality for computed feature definition

We are looking for a solution that will automate feature management and ensure data consistency between training and inference processing. We expect Feature Store to enable faster and more reliable deployment of ML models in production environment...
12 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

git Repository & DataStage

Actually, git integration does only work for projects including Notebooks, but not DataStage flows. It is even worse: when creating project with git integration, it is not longer possible to add DataStage flows AT ALL! Only projects w/o git integr...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Allow updates to HADR Standbys

Allow for updates to be issued on HADR standbys like Informix allows. Here is a extract from the informix manuals: You can enable applications connected to secondary servers to update database data. If you enable write operations on a secondary se...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics should provide a way to download report in CSV format without truncation.

Users, who want to download large report in CSV format, sometimes receive incomplete report in case network is busy and slow for example. However, there is no way for the users to determine if the received report is complete or not. (Case #TS00240...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alluvial chart as visualization in PAW

Make alluvial visualization type available as seen in Carbon Charts: https://carbondesignsystem.com/data-visualization/complex-charts/#alluvialsankey-diagrams This is a current customer requirement to visualize data flow between elements.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

StreamSets Job Transfer to Different Engines

Currently we have various deployment and Data Collector Engines and at time due to Engine not responding, or creating a new version, or changing configuration on the Engine, we have to restart or replace an Engine, this process is not straight for...
4 months ago in StreamSets 1 Functionality already exists