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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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Data Quality Rule: Preview of records without output table

Current behaviour: In order to see a preview of all records / failing records / or passing records, I need to define always an output table.Only with this information IBM knows what to display (columns, variables, metrics, etc.).Without configurin...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Planned for future release

Default setting for publishing Websheets from PAfE should be "r99_EnableNewPublish" : true

This idea refers to following the Community-Blog entry by Stuart King: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/stuart-king1/2024/10/30/publishing-websheets-from-pafe-2099 Updating an existing Websheet in Planning Analytics for Excel by defa...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

System fields in Creation View embedded grids

When configuring an embedded grid in a Task View, all the fields of the related object (which are in the users current profile) can be selected as column for the embedded grid. But when configuring an embedded grid in a Creation View, all fields ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Add a "CREATE TENANT LIKE" functionality

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. For ease of use and the ability to spin up seperate tenants fast, a statement like "CREATE TENANT <new tenant name> LIKE <existin...
about 1 year ago in Db2 4 Needs more information

Alert or Threshold Based on Number of Execution of SQL Query

We have noticed that customer is facing database failover issue when number of execution of any one query is very high which is utilizing all of the system resources. Is there any feasiblity of creating alert/threshold on number of execution of qu...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

WXCA4Z to explain Assembler language code, transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++

While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Data modules connection to AI assistant directly

Can we Right click on any data module or shortcut of data module can we connect to AI assistant directly in Cognos
about 2 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Disallow Manta workflows with no connections

Current Behavior: If you create a workflow in Manta which mentions no workflow, it starts analysis and extract on ALL connections. This is very dangerous and can cause manta to crash. The situation becomes worse because after users realise what th...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Not under consideration

Cognos changes in Account Configuration summation rule.

Hi Team, We would like to request your assistance in checking the feasibility of increasing the number of Summation Accounts (Summation Rules) available in Cognos. At the moment, each Cognos account is limited to three summation accounts (Rule1, R...
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration