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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Planning Analytics Workspace Refresh when navigating to workbook

Action button to navigate to another book. Would like it to force refresh/calculate the target book even when it is already opened. To build a website like experience the user is not using the PAW switcher to move between books. Rather using Actio...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review
281 VOTE

Apple Silicon / M1 / M2 / M3 Support for IBM ODBC/CLI Driver

As a developer on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip, I want to use the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver (downloadable from here) natively. Emulating is possible but since I am using this driver via Python, all my other Python code now needs to run emulated as w...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 48

Drive Explorer - add disk space available and folder sizes

With the demise of RDP access to the Planning Analytics server and the local File Explorer access imminent, I have been trying to use Drive Explorer to do my usual server activities.I need to duplicate the Data Folder of a PA instance, however I c...
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Support to Geometry type field to Oracle Database

the advancement of analytical projects involving geographic data and computer vision, the customer need to replicate geometry data from Oracle to later work on their analytical repositories.
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Greek Language to be added in the Assistant and Discovery products

We are under discussion with one of our customers about an Assistant solution that will help their technicians to work more efficient and resolve their issues faster. The documents are in Greek and English language, and this is a limitation in com...
2 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Support JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE functions in Db2 z/OS

For updating and searching in JSON objects which are stored in Db2 tables we need the JSON functions JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE. They exist as a dummy in Db2 z/OS but are currently not supported, not documented and do not work. In Db2 ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

More filtering options in categories search

Hi, could you please add more filtering options in categories view search? Currently user can only search top level categories without any properties.
12 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

CDC Forced Stop on Log Deletion

I am writing to request an enhancement in the CDC (Change Data Capture) functionality to include a forced stop mechanism when logs required by the XStream API are deleted. Currently, CDC continues to wait for logs from the XStream API, which resul...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 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...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration