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.

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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Workspaces connections and credentials are restricted to a given private workspace

In order to prevent users from changing connection details associated with an agent in a private workspace, only member of the private workspace can see the associated connections and credentials. Additionally, different teams using wxO will need ...
23 minutes ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Support for Oracle SQL Loader Lineage in Manta

Background In our current data pipelines, Oracle SQL Loader plays a critical role in loading data from flat files into Oracle tables. These loads are orchestrated through shell scripts and control files (.ctl), which define the mapping between inp...
about 6 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Implementation of multi-tenancy within IBM Knowledge Catalog

context: CP4D ver >=5.2.2 with Manta OEM on AWS Rosa The goal is to allow different teams—for example, Business Users, development teams, and testing/QA teams—to work on segregated and logically separated areas of the Knowledge Catalog. Allowin...
about 6 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Apply format to cube viewer based on MDX template parameters

When adding a member format within the format manager, when selecting from the member list any elements in the dimension/hierarchy selected are present, and so to are member calculations. What isn't available to select is an MDX Template Variable....
about 9 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Mail function to inform all users

Possibility to inform all users in one go, e.g. on timeline changes, closing process or structure changes or any other information that needs to be distributed to this audience. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 11 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Pop-up information for all active users 

Pop-up information for all active users to inform in case of necessary down-time etc. This could appear when logging on (to inform in advance) or ad-hoc while people are working – if necessary. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User G...
about 11 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Chat / collaboration feature 

A chat / collaboration feature would be helpful, e.g. in the area of IC reconciliation but also in other areas, e.g. to ask for commenting of certain figures. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 11 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Scheduling consolidation jobs in Controller Web

Possibility to plan consolidation jobs with a certain frequency, i.e. consolidate on an hourly basis – also in web. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 11 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. 

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. E.g. Trial balance based on FAP cube – offers full flexibility in analysis, ideally with predefined subsets for each form. This idea was raised out...
about 11 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Custom reports in Controller web

The custom web functionality should provide more flexibility. Also concerning layouting etc. Drilldown-like reports or reports with filter functionality would also be helpful. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 11 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

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