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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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Spark default environment variables user should be able to set using UI and API

As of today, Spark engine supports default Spark configurations that are set at engine level. Similarly, there is a requirement to have default Environment variables that a user should be able to set in UI as well as from API. Default environment ...
2 months ago in watsonx.data 0

Skip db2prereqcheck for x86 Linux packages as an option

db2prereqcheck may still "complain" about missing x86 Linux packages. Example: [root@db2v121vm1 ~] # cat /etc/os-release NAME= "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" VERSION= "9.2 (Plow)" [...] [root@db2v121vm1 server] # ./db2prereqcheck -i -l 32-Bit "/lib/li...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

Gitops pattern for DataStage NG/Cloud Pak for data installation / update

The customer has implemented a standard for containerized deployments (CD pipeline) towards Kubernetes/Openshift with the following stages: Git → ArgoCD → k8s/Openshift The current installation of Datastage based on CPD shall use the GitOps patter...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Submitted

PAW: clickable hyperlink in cell of cube view

In Planning Analytics Workspace, allow clickable hyperlinks in cells of cube views.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 10 Planned for future release

Improved functionality for tablespace fast pre-allocation

My customer is experiencing huge performance problems due to Tablespace Pre-allocation (DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION).At this time, IOCP Timeout occurs in Db2 and many tossbuffers occur in GPFS.This customer has been struggling with this problem for...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 6 Future consideration

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

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
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data Move Wizard

Provide a capability that will allow users to move objects and children objects from one business entity to another without needing to move each object individually.Users will have the ability to :o Filter for objects to moveo Select one or many p...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Not under consideration

Outlook Tools support client credentials flow

We would like to have a OAuth2 (Client Credentials) supported for the outlook tools.
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Smart Split Data Modeling

When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted