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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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Customized views for different Personas

Provide alternate look and feel and re-prioritized search results based upon different personas or groups of users. Roles, Groups, and/or association to data domains could give easier viewing of data for technical users from business as well as fr...
about 5 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Use Query Logs for Lineage and Usage Analysis

Lineage collection today depends on explicitly defined data flows and relationships between data assets. This process leaves holes in the data lineage flows. However, if IKC could start collecting, analyzing and parsing query logs during Metadata ...
about 5 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 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...
about 5 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Manta option to show aggregated node counts

It would be nice to have an option that shows the aggregated amount of child nodes at each level of the tree in the Manta UI, on the lineage selection page . This could be for instance a UI option or configuration option. The idea is that the cust...
about 7 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Improved Extension & Visualization Management in Cognos Deployments

Cognos currently treats all extensions and visualizations as a single flat collection. During deployment, the system automatically includes every extension/visualization on the source server, with no way to distinguish between: IBM‑delivered sam...
about 7 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add SUGGESTED & REJECTED states for associated data_class and classification for Reporting

Some data is missing when synced from project and catalogs into reporting database for IKC. After working with support, it turned out that: - For data_class and classification, only ASSIGNED state is synced, and SUGGESTED and REJECTED are not sync...
about 8 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

JDBC/ODBC Interface for BI Tools and integration with 3rd party software

Many customers use BI tools like Power BI, Tableau etc. They ask for JDBC/ODBC interface so they could access data products and data asset's defined in our data intelligence platform using tools of their choice. I've got statements from several cu...
about 8 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics (CA) with Unified and Granular Security Audit Logging for Compliance with QRADAR

Business Context: As an enterprise customer operating in a regulated industry, we are required to meet strict IT security audit standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR). Currently, auditing capability across the IBM Cognos Analytics is fragmented. ...
about 12 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Share this report via email to me / Share this report via email to <firstname> <lastname>

I'm using Agentic IA from the Assistant panel. I don't use anonymous access on my server so my server knows who I am. I would like to use "Share this report via email to me" or "Share this report via email to <firstname> <lastname>". I...
about 16 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Externalize instrumentation (IFCID) written at archive time

The IFCID should contain active log dataset name active log dataset size active log span (time interval Db2 has written log records into that log data set / After how many minutes was the log archived?) How full was the log (in percent) at the tim...
about 18 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review