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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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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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Information Server 11.7.1.6 support for Oracle 26ai

The company is upgrading Oracle Exadata Platform hosting transactional databases to Oracle 26ai from Oracle 21c. Need to be able certify connectivity to Oracle 26ai
about 8 hours ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

CP4D support for Oracle 26ai

Currently CP4D offers connectivity to Oracle 21c in Version 5.2.1. Need for CP4D to certify connectivity to Oracle 26ai as the company intends to migrate all Transactional Exadata Platform to Oracle 26ai.
about 8 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

README.md model card for the Custom Foundation Model

My client wanted to deploy a custom Foundation Model and provide detailed information to WatsonX users, similar to the model cards provided by IBM. However, the Description field cannot contain any information other than text. Even though the mode...
about 13 hours ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Enabling Concurrent Query Execution for Master-Detail Relationships in Reports

Concurrent query execution for reports containing multiple layout components (e.g., lists, crosstabs) generally works well when properly configured. However, there are specific scenarios where concurrent query execution is not possible. One notabl...
about 15 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Configurable Query Retry Mechanism for Enhanced Query Reliability

Our backend utilizes Trino on S3, and we occasionally encounter intermittent error messages, particularly when a single Cognos report generates multiple queries against the same data source. This issue is more prevalent in scenarios involving mast...
about 15 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Live editing of PDF

We would request live editing of PDFs.pdfs cannot be viewed or edited 'live' rather you need to download and re-upload. A large volume of our client's audit evidence is PDF.
about 24 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Allow multiple File System Root Locations to save scheduled report outputs

Supporting multiple Archive Location File System Roots for saving scheduled report outputs would allow Cognos to store reports across different storage servers for capacity planning, departmental separation, or migration scenarios. This would bene...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

We would like to see OTEL 1161 information added to IFCID 3 with new OTEL section added

Add new OTEL section to IFCID 3 containing SPANID / TRACEID, LUWID, and all related OTEL information
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Asset browser folder view search only finds assets, not folder names

The "search" functionality in the asset browser while in the folder view is working correctly as of Version 5.3.0 and allows searching for assets by name. But it will not find any folder names that match the search string.
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

improve bconf .

we have a large lsf cluster which contains many usergroup with fairshares. so every time we want to use bconf to update usershares, it would take 3 mins to complete and during process, the mbatchd is not responding. all detail you can refer to bel...
2 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted