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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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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.

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Temporal Table extension for Auditing and Interface Design

Add functionality to allow the use of temporal tables for auditing purposes by adding functionality like in Db2 for z/OS: - A column GENERATED ALWAYS AS (DATA CHANGE OPERATION)- ON DELTE ADD EXTRA ROW functionality to record who deleted a rowIn co...
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

failed logins in auditlog

In the audit logs (WAS_install_path/profiles/InfoSphere/logs) there is no information on failed logins. This information is only logged in the WAS SystemOut.log as Authentication failed.It would be important to have this audit-critical information...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

OpenPages - Text field - need character count

Generally, all free text fields (should) have a character countdown. Also, from a user experience perspective, when the character limit is reached, a user should not be able to type more Characters; currently it allows the user to keep typing more...
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Print Functionality

"Expand All" functionality would help to save "mouse" clicks for print preparation.
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/db2-db2-server-tcpip-port-numbers For Db2 Version 11.5.5 or older, the ports used are 60000 and higher. For example, ports 60006 - 60011 would be ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Give AI real Forward-thinking cognition, while cutting training and resources needed by 90%

Here are the primary benefits LFM contributes to general AI architecture: 1. Shift from Pattern Matching to Principled Derivation Traditional AI (including most large language models) excels at finding correlations and patterns in massive datasets...
4 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Display Name on Actual @Mention Comment

When adding a comment mention you can search by First Name Last Name/Display Name. When the comment is actually logged, it defaults to UserName which in a lot of orgs is a userID/ alphanum string. This makes it difficult to remember who you're col...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Functionality already exists

Cobol Scanner should recover when *, Identification Area is present in column 72 of COBOL code

At my organization, some COBOL programs in production import copybooks, and those copybooks may themselves include other copybooks. For example, the program flow might look like: olila12p.cob → DPBAUTW0.cpy → DPSINSCC.cpy However, the Manta COBOL ...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Automating Health checks scripts to get a report via email.

Automating Health checks scripts which can automate (may be daily or weekly), so that it can be tracked via an email
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 2 Under review

Add Support for Confluent JSON Schema in Kafka Stages

Only Avro is currently supported. Even if the data is read as text and the magic byte is removed and the text is transformed into JSON, the Kafka producer cannot serialize the JSON back to the Confluent JSON schema.
4 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted