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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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Prevent backend business rule code from displaying in SAP SuccessFactors UI; show only processed user-friendly data.

Why is it useful? Currently, users see raw backend rule code (Java logic) instead of their benefit details. This creates confusion, reduces trust, and impacts usability. Who would benefit? Employees: They will see clear benefit enrollment details ...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 0 Submitted

Make DBET selectable

It would be useful in many different situations if the DBET could be read via SQL, similar to some tables in the Db2 directory.
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

PAW Bar Chart Legend Labels

In Planning Analytics Workspace, in the bar chart can you add the option to hide hierarchy name in Legend Labels?
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Auto-Recovery when RTO gets stuck

Overview Normally, RTAs are deleted when the notebook job finishes, but sometimes they are not deleted and pile up. Based on the log, it appears that the RTO gets stuck and is unable to process RTAs. This stuck cause several kinds of issues. So I'...
9 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 1 Submitted

WatsonX.ai to offer an OpenAI compatible endpoint to inference models

Currently, WatsonX.ai does not provide an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for accessing models hosted on its platform. The OpenAI endpoint standard is widely used and supported by many open-source tools (such as OpenwebUI). In contrast, WatsonX only of...
18 days ago in watsonx.ai 2 Submitted

Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Use the engines of the lakehouse in Git integrated projects

We have an instance of watsonx.data in CP4D, installed on Openshift in Azure Cloud. Within watsonx.data we have buckets representing azure containers within a Azure Blob storage. In projects that are integrated with Git, when we need to configure ...

Create TABLESPACE IF NOT EXISTS

Some objects in Db2 LUW can use the IF NOT EXISTS in a CREATE (or IF EXISTS in a DROP), e.g. for TABLE. But the option is not available for Tablespaces. I believe it is available in other RDMS products e.g. SQL Server. Could the option be extended...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

Adding Financial function Internal Rate of Return (IRR) to TM1 Rules

Adding an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) feature to IBM Planning Analytics TM1 Rules will significantly enhance its value for financial analysis and decision-making. IRR is a crucial metric for evaluating the profitability of investments and projec...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 6 Submitted
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More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration