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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Unhide Synonyms from Lineage

A common pattern in data warehouses, especially with DB2, is to use Synonyms (DB2 calls those Aliases) to allow tables to be updated without impacting running queries and data integration processes or causing wrong/partial data to be displayed. Un...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

provide notebook CUH usage via API

Our customer tracks CUH usage on project level and wants to access the CUH information over API. In the past we faced some issue with this approach which led to https://bigblue.aha.io/features/UNIFIEDCAT-6005. Implementing this AHA request has als...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

UI enhancement: adding Restart-options for CDC subscriptions without data

When the subscriptions failed, it always need customer to restart it manually. in banking environment there are too many subscriptions need to monitor and manage, even coding to management is also hard work, and it will impact real-time efficiency...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Option to include 7zip for application backups in TM1 Servers

We are not able to do backups and zip the data as we use to do on-premise.
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Sharing of admin privileges for skills

Currently, only the originator of a skill can update/delete that skill. This is the case in both the catalog and in a customer's tenent. If the skill needs to be modified by someone else, that is not possible. Recommend 1. the originator has the a...
about 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

create dataset from report

Need the ability to create datasets from reports. Current feature only allows creation of data sets from package
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow custom fonts to be added to Cognos 11 Dashboard

Customer would like to add Corporate Identity based fonts to Cognos Analytics 11 Dashboarding. Currently only the on-bord Fonts can be used to customize the look of Dashboards.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Accessibility Enhancement: Provide accessible name and accessible description for scroll bar arrows on visualizations

Requesting to add accessible name and accessible description for the intent of the scroll bar arrows on the visualization. The screen tip indicating scroll up or scroll down when hovering over the arrows will enable screen reader audience to under...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted