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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.

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.

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PAW: Allow formatting of picklist arrow colour in cell

We are bound by string colour guidelines, and have several picklist selectors in a cube and are unable to see the blue picklist arrow. It would be great to have the option to select the arrow colour to show the contrast See attached - unable to se...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Comments added with a REST API call

We would like to automate as many functionalities we can, but so far we've not found a way to add a comment. In the Activity log (e.g. for a business term) in the UI there's an opportunity for user to write a comment - but how to do it with REST API?
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Search capabilities to find answers and variables

Currently, the search functionality within the Assistant allows curators to find actions by name, but it does not provide the ability to locate specific steps, answers, variables and input conditions. Furthermore, it would be interesting to have t...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Default message for conversation closure in Digression

In the digression there is a disambiguation step that determines whether or not to return to the original flow. However, when the user selects the "No" option, the conversation ends abruptly. The suggestion is to enhance this behavior by allowing ...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Optimizing Text Formatting

Improvement in text formatting mainly when line breaks are required. Currently, when inserting line breaks in the text, there is a constant need for adjustments in the JSON, as multiple “\n” characters are automatically added between paragraphs
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Pushing CDC Logs to Monitoring Tools such as Observe/Splunk automatically

In current modern world, It would be good if CDC product is capable to push the logs (Capture, Apply, Trace) automatically to Monitoring Tools such as Observe/Splunk which will help to setup alerts, dashboards, etc., to closely monitor the CDC per...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 6 Future consideration

PAW notification for outage, change etc.

Currently, there no way to notify users on PAW interface itself. There are many tools which show yellow notification bar with important messages such as outages, timelines etc. Something like this on PAW interface could be of great help. This feat...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

A "OCP centric" DR solution

Intesa SanPaolo needs to organize periodically DR tests. These tests are conducted by creating OpenShift clusters in a isolate environment only when needed (once the DR test is completed, the clusters are deleted). Specifically, the client current...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Replicate a table with XML data type from IBM i (iseries AS400)

In the last few days we have had a situation in some customer with SAP on IBM i running, in which due to the characteristics of modernization of the database to adapt it for the use of new technologies, we have seen an increase in the requirement ...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Planned for future release