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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    FAP application to support multi-subnet failover

    Hi, After Q1 2025 our team proceeded with network migration to greenfield, after which our Cognos MSSQL server went from this setup: one primary, one backup; to this setup: cluster server - when one is in maintenance or overloaded, the other one t...
    about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

    Support Windows 11 running on Azure Virtual Desktop for Modeler Client and CADS Deployment Manager

    We request that Modeler Client and CADS Deployment Manager support to run on Windows 11 on Azure Virtual Desktop.
    about 1 month ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Submitted

    The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

    When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...
    about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    PII detection for labeling or automated scrubbing

    Identifying Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in field text is vital for compliance and security purposes to have some call out around PII, or automated scrubbing. We have setup our own PII guardrail as an LLM call to pick up some specific...
    5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 5

    There should be a table like SYSUTILITIES that contains Db2 Commands that have been issued

    There should be a table like SYSUTILITIES , say SYSCOMMANDS, that contains Db2 Commands that have been issued, including the full text of the Db2 command that was issued.
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 16 Planned for future release

    Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

    The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing). ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Promp...
    3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Simplify Security Logins for Drive Explorer

    Currently in Drive Explorer you have to login to the remote file store. Coming soon, you'll also have to log into the local file store. From a security perspective, this makes sense. However, it is tedious for administrators especially when there ...
    9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

    A user with DBA privilege should be able to change the owner of a table without need to recreate it.

    When a table needs to have a different owner, it is not possible to change it without recreating such object. It is to mention that Informix 8.21 allowed the change of the owner of the table with the RENAME TABLE statement. This is very usefull wh...
    5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    FileNet Agent to query documents

    FileNet Agent would help many customers to interact with FileNet and ability to query on the document, summarize the document or get the data based on the document type and integrate with downstream 3rd party servers to simplify or to automate the...
    9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Future consideration

    DSNTEP2/4 should issue Timestamp before and after SQL statement execution, or even better the delta ow long a SQL statement needs

    If a lot of SQL statements are executed in one job and step, it is very difficult to find the SQL which takes the long time. IFCID traces on DB2 must be started to neil this down. OR another example is the fact that e.g. the first ALTER in a seque...
    4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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