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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.

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.

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Enhance the Gateway Java API to include the ability to get and use a database connection in user exits

Publish a supported Java API that a customer implemented Gateway User Exits can get a database connection from. The database connection should be based upon the same database credentials as what the Gateway uses. The database connection should be ...
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Submitted

Enable the publish or activation of a single action from a lower environment into Production, without requiring direct edits in the Production instance

To enable the publish or activation of a single action from a lower environment (e.g., Dev or Staging) into Production, without requiring direct edits in the Production instance. This would allow teams to isolate environments and maintain complian...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

TTM model availability on watsonx.ai user interface

Time series models are not available through the UI, and only through SDK/API.
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Add Support of USING DESCRIPTOR to SQL PL CALL statement

Add Support of USING DESCRIPTOR to SQL PL CALL statement. This will bring the CALL statement supported by SQL PL closer to CALL statement supported for application programs and increase flexibility of coding and maintaining Native SQL stored proce...
16 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Theme color option(s) for Welcome Background

Add options to allow for color customization of the Welcome background and panels for Create, Assistant, and Learn areas. Could allow for common color for entire area or for the various panels independently. Not having this does not allow for comp...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Submitted

Data Lineage Trustworthiness -- Disclose the source of lineage in the MANTA Query API

Preamble:Interactive Brokers has an imediate need for this but there may be other customers, in my view in mature or advanced levels of Manta usage, that might benefit from this. Interactive Brokers is currently using Manta to produce data-lineage...
16 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Putting Ai over a hash network or CubesOS

I believe the idea to put Ai onto CubesOS, as pertaining to bootup phase and thereon, unto eliminating interference by manipulating prompts or while Ai is being utilized. I would constantly see misinterpreted or censorship like qualities due to ba...
16 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

PAW: Action Buttons -> Toggle on / off pop up display

Current state: when hovering over an action button, a pop-up appears with the same text of the action button. Proposed state: ability to turn off this pop-up from appearing when hover over. eg setting in properties
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

DEBUG Level logging support across all Cloud Pak for Data services

At this time we have not standardized the implementation of DEBUG level logging for all CP4D services. Some services support enabling DEBUG level logging but that needs to be done manually through the deployment, ie. "oc edit deployment <deploy...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Future consideration