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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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Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Alert mechanism for Scheduled Task (failures at-least)

Why useful? The absence of monitoring allows the issues to go undetected, exposing the business to avoidable operational, financial, and reputational risk. Who would benefit? Anyone who is using Scheduled Task to run critical jobs. How should it w...
about 10 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Default value for a field gets removed after each upgrade.

Is it possible to implement a mechanism in the upgrade process that compares the target environment’s configuration with the upgrade package to identify any deviations from the out-of-the-box configuration? If differences are detected, the package...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 0 Submitted

Base64 encoded pictures in PAW view

Dear community! Would it be possible to display small product images instead of text cells in the PAW view? Can this also be made dynamic? Images can be stored in books in Base64 format. Would it be possible to display the image defined in the cel...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Support Data Modules for the Event Agent - CUG2026

With Cognos Analytics version 12.1.1 and higher, Data Modules have matured into a powerful and strategically central modeling layer. They enable fast, business-oriented, and low-maintenance modeling and are now the recommended foundation for repor...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Burmese Language Support

We are requesting Burmese language support in IBM Cognos Analytics for customers and users who need to work in Burmese. At present, Burmese does not appear to be available as a supported Cognos product or content locale in our environment, which p...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support OpenSSL

Problem Statement Currently, GSKit is the only supported way of setting up TLS and cryptography in Db2 LUW. Because only IBM products rely on GSKit (as far as I know) it poses a higher barrier to entry when starting with Db2. While GSKit supports ...
8 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

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 ...
8 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Add Additional Tuning Support for Google BigQuery Stages

Currently, the Google BigQuery Origin does not provide performance tuning / optimization configurations other than Max Batch Size, (i.e. multi-threads, batch wait timeout etc.) when customer's are needing to increase their throughput of their BQ o...
about 3 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Improving Workflow Transparency: Items Progress and Read-Only Access

To enhance visibility and management of items within a workflow, we propose the following improvements: Display Total Number of Items: Allow users to see the total number of items in the workflow, either globally or by step. This will provide a ...
about 5 hours ago in Product Master 0 Submitted