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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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Use the engines of the lakehouse in Git integrated projects

We have an instance of watsonx.data in CP4D, installed on Openshift in Azure Cloud. Within watsonx.data we have buckets representing azure containers within a Azure Blob storage. In projects that are integrated with Git, when we need to configure ...

Image resize that translates to Cognos Reports

When using the CKEditor in OpenPages, you can resize images using the corners. Unfortunately, when you run a Cognos report, the image shows in its original size as when it was uploaded. In order to make images the appropriate size for the PDF repo...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Submitted

A Github integration ensures enterprise-grade governance, automation, and agility for data engineering workflows. By leveraging GitHub and LevelUp tooling, clients gain robust version control, rollback capabilities, and automated testing/deployment for pipelines and DAGs. It reduces operational risk, accelerates delivery, and aligns with modern DevOps practices.

Large enterprise clients like AT&T, who manage complex data pipelines across hybrid environments, will benefit from streamlined CI/CD processes, improved security, and consistent governance across services. How should it work? GitHub Integra...

Export global search list result

Using the Global Search function on the homepage, we would like to be able to export the data list result. In fact, actually is not possible to extract and download the result list.
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Allow users to choose the preferred output format in the Cognos Toolbar before the users need to choose the selections on the prompt page and run the report in OpenPages

Users need to wait until the report provides the results in the default format until they can choose the desired format in the Cognos toolbar in OpenPages. For the reports without the prompt pages users can select the format before running the rep...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

Support new connection type for watsonx.data and support for Spark engines in it

Documentation: https://ibm-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/p/shrinivas_kulkarni_in/EcUbCoYhyVRJmWrwscDVUx8B0jxHp5cqCLtr4E7xuCGDMw?e=tbj8w8 Future State Support for new connection type to point to a specific Spark Engine of watsonx.data, either on SaaS or so...

The "Files and Attachments" should be available for reporting as well

Currently there is no mechanism to show the related/uploaded Files i.e., SOXDocuments for reporting in Cognos, this limits the capability of the report and the users always have to navigate back to the system to see, if there are any attached file...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

Request for Product Enhancement – Low Latency Data Processing Capabilities in watsonx.data

The customer is currently using watsonx.data to support a high-partition, high-ingestion analytics platform. While the system is now stable after several patches and fixes, they are looking ahead to future enhancements that can meet their true low...

Possibility for the user to view and export OpenPages data at any given date/hour/minute in the past

Possibility for the user to view and export OpenPages data at any given date/hour/minute in the past without the need to have previously saved a reporting period (snapshot). It should ideally roll-up all data changes occurred in the database till ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Standard report to count users by category (as defined in the licenses)

at least Profiles and the objects they use.
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 5 Not under consideration