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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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Enable Random Sampling in Data Preview

In IBM Cloud Pak for Data, the preview functionality currently displays 1,000 consecutive records from the dataset. This approach often does not represent the overall content, since consecutive rows may contain similar or homogeneous data. The pro...
5 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Allow use of REORG DISCARD for DSNDB06.SYSTSUTL

The SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES is going to require pruning -- and presumably SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS will as well. With row-level locking, doing a mass delete to purge unneeded history objects could become an issue with too many held locks and would likely r...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

 Differentiate Calculated or Suggested Values with Visual Highlighting in Asset Profiles

In IBM Cloud Pak for Data, certain values displayed in the Profile tab of an asset (both in projects and catalogs), such as data type, may be calculated or suggested by the tool rather than explicitly defined. Currently, these values are shown in ...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enable Rule-Based Suppression of Measurement Drilldowns for Small Groups

We need the ability to define conditional rules that restrict the reporting of specific measurements when drilldowns result in small group sizes, so that compliance with privacy and ethical standards can be ensured and unintended efficiency analys...
5 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Configurable separation of data pools

Configuration option to allow / prohibit certain data pools to be joined. E.g. the total data Watsonx.BI has access to consist of multiple pools of data: DataPool A, B and C. Prohibit: Join of data pool A with data pool B Prohibit: Join of data po...
5 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

German language support

All documents and data on-site is in German. German is the primary business language.
5 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Early release of GUI development capabilities

Currently, GUI-based development in wxO has many limitations and remains heavily dependent on ADK. Strengthening GUI development capabilities would make scale-out much easier and greatly enhance feasibility for large-scale project deployments. The...
5 months ago in Digital Labor Automation 1 Functionality already exists

timstamp_jcf_is_commit_timestamp equivalient in CDC z/OS?

We have a usecase for an application that need a DB2 commit timestamp to be sent out as a part of the payload to a target Oracle Database from Db2 Source system. Currently the parm timstamp_jcf_is_commit_timestamp is only available in DB2 remote s...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

UI Update for Reporting: User-level arrangement of column rows to select from

Direct client feedback on Cognos landing pages, specifically: Exporting selected fields (e.g., 8) currently results in all data points (e.g., 80) appearing in CSV exports. Allowing users to arrange columns instead of defaulting to alphabetical sor...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Needs more information