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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    Add the option to pick the document language and support table and image extraction

    This proposal addresses a critical need for expanding the document ingestion capabilities of our product, which is particularly relevant to our clients with non-English data. Currently, our UDI feature is limited to an English-only OCR model. This...
    about 19 hours ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - Unstructured data integration capability 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    13 days ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - General ideas 1 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...
    29 days ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - Bulk/Batch and ETL/ELT capability 0 Submitted

    An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

    Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

    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...
    3 months ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - General ideas 0 Submitted

    Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

    There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Not under consideration

    Configurable "smarts"

    Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

    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...
    5 months ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - General ideas 0 Submitted

    Have better documentation on how to work (How to ask and what to expect) with AI Assistant

    Customer comments: We are just learning Assistant and preparing for training sessions for business users before deploying. It would be nice if we can explain the why and when of each scenario because we will surely be asked the same questions. Wit...
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0

    Provide integration with ChatGPT for AI Analysis of reporting results

    We can see if will be a great business case that if we call ChatGPT, then pass the file and ask ChatGPT to analyse and provide a summary. If we can do that, it will greatly improve the use of Cognos in our decisions making process.
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 1 Planned for future release

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