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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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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.

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Allowing user limit the amout/type of GPU used in Python notebook

We are allowing users limiting CPU/Memory in Python notebook inside Watson Studio. However, as GPUs are becoming scarce resources, it would be very helpful if we can create Python env template, while choosing the amount/type of GPUs that can be us...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Backup and restore IBM Cloud Pak with Kasten

Hello, We are using Kasten (VEEAM) to backup and restore all of our apps on Openshift and we would like to use it also for IBM Cloud Pak (for data, for automation, for integration, ...). Regards.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Add a way to wait for bufferpool creation when creating tablespaces

What we do when creating tablespaces as part of migration files (think flyway, but any similar utility will be relevant) is to create a bufferpool and then create the tablespace. Example: create bufferpool dummy size 5000 pagesize 8k; create table...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Improve Manta's PowerExchange file reader scanner's lineage by showing the source and target file system

Issue When Manta is used to scan the PowerExchange (PWX) file reader in Informatica PowerCenter, it successfully parses the PWX component. However, it does not display the actual source and target files based on the information available in the wo...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Under review

Support for List type in Variant datatype column for Snowflake Destination stage

Customer is trying to insert an array json into a Snowflake table with one of the column of Variant datatype. They encountered error "invalid type 'LIST', column type is 'VARIANT' " when pushing array data to Snowflake destination stage.
5 months ago in StreamSets 6 Planned for future release

Using the ADDI Dataset flow to enable tracing of correspondence between input and output files of an assembler program

In the case of assembler programs, it is not possible to identify the relationship of the data set flow taking into account the input and output files. I would like to be able to do this.
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

The feature of viewing package data sources is not present in Cognos11

The feature of viewing package data sources in package > actions > more is not present in Cognos11. We like this feature to be in Cognos 11
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Request for Additional Notification for Business Term Approvals - before reaching due date

Hi, Currently, we have the Governance Artifact Workflow with multiple approvals enabled for our business terms. We also have email notifications activated for all users during the workflow approval and publishing steps. While we receive notificati...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Creating and Assign Values to Custom Context Variables in Agents

Currently we have the functionality to use context variables while creating Agents. How can we create our own custom context variables and set their values? For ex: var name : Environment & var value : Dev/Test/Production
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

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