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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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Improve IBM Controller Excel timeout experience

Current Challenge When IBM Controller Excel times out, users face two issues: Closing the logon pop-up triggers an error (see screenshot "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"). Attempting to log on again without restarting Ex...
4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Is a defect

Improve Polish Translation in IBM Cognos Controller Web

We have identified incorrect Polish translations in IBM Cognos Controller Web interface for basic form types. These terms are used daily and are critical for usability. Current translations are not only inaccurate but misleading: English: Standa...
5 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Is a defect

Character encoding issue when importing agents from ADK

When exporting agent for modification using the ADK, no issues occur concerning the character encoding, for example, some character like é/à/è are correctly kept as is during the export. However, when importing the agents back into orchestrate wit...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Is a defect

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Is a defect

Correction needed for Actuality selection when running import data with loop on Web

On the upload tab, when running import data with loop enabled on Web, you are presented with the actuality name from the context of the location you are connected against. However, when you select the drop down menu button next to the actuality na...
7 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Is a defect

Being able to default when running a report ad hoc and sending the results by email to 'Attach report output' instead of 'Include link'.

There are scenarios when the user would like a report output sent to them by email instead of a link. It would be helpful if this could be a default option instead of having to manually update this everytime a report is run. It used to default or ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Is a defect

Testing Custom LLMs

Even after successfull configuration and connection of custom llms, we get message timeout and we are not able to figure out where the connection broke to custom llm and wx chat UI, we get Timeout reached waiting for new events.
8 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Is a defect

Assistant does not respect Locale settings when displaying date mask

Users are confused when Assistant asks for Date inputs. It displays a mask of mm/dd/yyyy even those the regional settings and the Locale are set to 'en-NZ'. Despite being a bug, IBM Support require this to be raised as an idea. Support reference: ...
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Is a defect

Improvement to eliminate or manage the "Transparent Button" overlay issue in TM1 Web/PAW

In some TM1 Web/Planning Analytics Workspace screens, we frequently encounter a UI element labeled as "Transparent Button" overlapping other functional buttons or components. This ghost element seems to serve no clear purpose, and even when delete...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics Is a defect

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE and db2look result in partition table column range definitions padding extra blank spaces when using config STRING_UNITS = CODEUNITS32

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE and db2look need to be updated to properly support STRING_UNITS = CODEUNITS32. When running ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE on a partitioned table with the 'MOVE' option, or when running db2look, in an environment with the db cfg setting for STR...
10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale Is a defect