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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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Request for ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

PAW - Add freeze panes in views

It would be very useful to have 2 additional properties in the views allowing to set up freeze panes similar to excel. It would thus be possible to set the number of rows and the number of columns to freeze. Example : Number of rows to freeze = 0 ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Hover Text on Dashboard

Dashboard needs to be clean and have short titles due to real estate being valuable on the page. If the hover text function could have a full title and definition of terms for specific visualizations / metrics then we can keep the clean look and f...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Future consideration

Milvus Attu console Enablement on watsonx.data

For managing Milvus Vector DB, GUI is required by our client DBAs. Attu console can be adopted for Openshift deployment.
6 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Views

We really need to have Dashbord views (as we have for ReportViews) that allow us to set specific dashboard values while having on sigle master Dashboard. Thank you.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2

SFTP Client Origin: Additional Offset Management Configuration Options

The current offset behavior of the SFTP Client origin is based on two checks after a file is processed: The stage stores the filename and modification timestamp of the last processed file in the offset. When new files arrive, the stage evaluates e...
2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Incorporate Image Service into the base product.

Incorporate Image Service into the base product so you do not need a additional docker installation of a Linux container so organizations will not install docker.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Enable client to automate restart of PA on Cloud

Enable client to automate restart of PA on Cloud
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Future consideration

Service permissions

In the past we had different User Groups using a tool. for Example one group was using datastage and another one the knowledge catalog. It was easy to say if someone is allowed to use a toolstack, because you just need to give them a permission. E...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review