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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Code Explain should support macros

Many customers use macros to generate COBOL to simplify the way that they wrote code, especially for standard processes. When developers select their code in the IDE to generate an explanation, it won't always be standard COBOL thanks to these mac...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

Support for Multi-Factor Authentication

Using a multi-factor authentication account (RSA token) when creating and configuring a shared repository and relational data source causes the user account to lock due to too many attempts using invalid credentials. Please implement support for M...
6 months ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Under review

Possibility of installing the Management Console on other operating systems such as Unix/Linux

Since the Management Console of the IBM Data Replication Db2 for z/OS Remote Source runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), the client requests that we support its execution on other operating systems such as Unix/Linux.
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Enable gRPC endpoints with Satellite in watsonx.data SaaS

If a client wants to connect to watsonx.data on-prem from a IBM cloud application with private links, they need to use IBM Satellite in order to do this. However, Satellite does NOT support gRPC endpoints, only HTTP/S and few other options. watson...
6 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Granular API Key permissions

API Keys should allow for granular permissions across all objects and capabilities, ultimately limited by the associated user's capabilities. This should allow us to assign a specific API key to only run a single report, or access a specific folde...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add native assistant variable of last called action

Add a native Assistant variable to store the last called action in the watsonx Assistant. This variable would allow developers to easily reference the most recent action executed, simplifying debugging/logs and enhancing workflow automation. It co...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Upgrades in rolling fashion

Problem Statement: At present we are following IBM process to upgrade db2 hadr servers: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization Current IBM process involves an...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration
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Conditionally Render objects on Dashboards

Include the ability to conditionally render objects in Dashboards. This would allow the user based on CSVIdentityList, the ability to conditionally present a page, based on the user's Group Membership, or based upon other attribute values on the p...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Update the view with multiple hierarchies and MDX

Hello Product Management Team, Based on documentation, there is no direct built in functionality to dynamically update a views MDX based on a selection cell within a book in PAW. The StrToSet function can be used to dynamically define sets in MDX,...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Needs more information

Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted