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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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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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Gestures when working with widgets in books should align with other applications

In applications like Excel, Powerpoint etc. if you are working with shapes, images etc. you can drag them around by clicking the object then dragging. Using various key combinations in addition to dragging allows you to get a range of outcomes: ...
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Improve early exit/early close SQL processing in partitioned environments

In partitioned Db2 environments (MPP), where SQL statements are processed in parallel by multiple partitions and multiple agents on each of them, certain SQL might execute much longer due to processing a section of an SQL (and access plan) that co...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

LOAD could end with RC=08 when no columns are detailed and lose data after VARCHARs

When a table has a column with varying length (VARCHAR, VARBINARY) and other columns after it, LOAD needs the column description in SYSIN to be loaded correctly, and ends with RC=00 (or RC=04 if remains CopyPend state). But if you forget to explic...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DB2 inplace reorg, pause before TRUNCATE

Inplace Reorg acquires a share lock on the table, when empty pages are to be released after the reorg.To avoid this LOCK the parameter NOTRUNCATE TABLE could be used. But this leaves the pages allocated to the table object.It cannot be determined ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg job in SDSNSAMP.

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg in job in SDSNSAMP which would contain the appropriate parameters to obtain 85-90% of the maximum performance available from IBM's DB2 Reorg utility. It would be useful for everyone who runs DB2 on ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Compress agent conversation to prevent overflow

Based on the current conversation and the data size returned by tools, the context window of the conversation may quickly overflow. Conversations should be compacted in order avoid overflow. Acceptance criteria: Long conversations and large amount...
8 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Planned for future release

Ability to add multiple filters in Grids

Ability to add multiple filters to a grid
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Functionality already exists

A feature/Functionality to export the List of Columns & filters for all Cognos reports

Generate the Report Specification Help to reduce the report redundancy/report Harmonization Business users- Easy for Users to understand via this mapping sheet
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Allow the dimension editor to expand ancestors / descendants

Currently, there is no option to expand ancestors or descendants in the Dimension Editor; this functionality is only available in the Subset Editor. This creates a lack of uniformity in the system interface and results in unnecessary time spent ma...
8 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted