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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    PAW Enhancement: Proactive Notifications for Updates and Brief Disconnects

    Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, Based on support ticket [Insert Ticket ID], where the team endorsed logging this as an enhancement, I'd like to propose better communication during PAW updates or temporary API disruptions. Users often see alarmin...
    25 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Request block level Informix cluster replication

    Using block level replication will avoid a lot of SQL apply processing issues. It will lead to significant performance gains by offloading replication workload. Since it is an identical copy of the primary database, it can even fix corrupt block b...
    about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

    Drill-Through Mapping for Reports

    Having the ability to see how a report is linked to/from other reports via drill-throughs, would be very useful see at a glance as opposed to manually following the drill-through tool.
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

    Ability to select multiple Queries

    You can only select one query at a time to copy/move etc. It would be better to be able to Ctrl+select or select+shift+select to select more than one.
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

    Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

    Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

    I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...
    11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

    More than one image on chat API

    Multimodal Chat API should accept multiple images (base64) not single one. We have several use cases on Banco do Brasil that needs multiple images processing in the same chat but the IBM API limits it to just one due to that they are starting to u...
    9 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

    Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

    It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
    about 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

    Utility History support to expand to record Utility Phase Level execution details

    Utility History and the related object level history is a very welcome new addition. What will also be really useful will be the utility object level phase execution details e.g. CPU and Elapsed at every phase in the utility execution. This will p...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Remove the Privileges tab in IBM's Unified Management Server for z/OS

    We use RACF as our external security manager for Db2 authorizations. Using the “Privileges” tab shows the internal Db2 permissions. We have two issues with this functionality : 1) We consider this a security exposure. We do not allow anyone that s...
    3 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

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