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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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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 IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Functionality already exists
141 VOTE

Same selected item data in value prompt is sent to the client browser over and over while using drill-through

Same selected item data in Value prompt is sent to client browser over and over while using drill through. When lots of items are selected in Value prompt, this issue causes huge amount of data receiving. Those same selected item data shouldn't be...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Persistent Saving of User Rows/Columns (Spacers) Directly in Universal Reports Web Interface

Dear Team, Currently, user rows/columns (spacers) in Universal Reports can be added, edited, or removed in the web interface (Planning Analytics Workspace or TM1 Web), as well as fully edited and saved in Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE). In th...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Better dbaccess output formats

CSV output, or at at least tabular output with headings would be appreciated A "quiet" or "errors only" mode would also be good, as too many times errors get lost because stderr was sent to /dev/null, because most of the things dbaccess writes t...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

Notification for Jobs in Activating or Deactivating After an Amount of Time

Control Hub Subscriptions events that would be the closest to monitoring this would be a Job Status Change. The job statuses Activating and Deactivating themselves are necessary and we would not want a notification every time a job went to these s...
9 months ago in StreamSets 5 Future consideration

Expand the logger functionalities for TI parameters and parameter values

Dear IBM team, we need the possibility to get the information concerning TI process parameters and parameter values. On the one hand it is possible to retrieve this information through own codes in a TI directly, however, it would be smoother to s...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

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,...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Needs more information

Deferred ALTERs can be materialized on a subset of partitions

We have a 2048 partitioned Tablespace and need to ALTER the keyranges. Afterwards a REORG on the complete object is needed. We want a piecemeal tactic for the REORG: All ALTERs are in SYSPENDINGDDL, and a REORG on partition level can materialize a...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review