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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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Enable Watch Rules in Cognos Analytics

We used to be able to create watch rules in Cognos 10X but that doesn't look like a case in Cognos Analytics. Customers can upgrade / import rules along with other content (Content Store) from C10 to C11 but they cannot create new rules.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign On using SAML2 for Cognos

SAML2 is becoming an industry standard and many vendors are moving to supporting it. Using SAML2 will provide Cognos with another method for external authentication. SAML2 is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlemen...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow click+drag functionality to highlight cells

In Contributor our users were accustomed to being able to left click a cell and drag their mouse to select a large group of cells at once. In PAW they are not able to do this. The option does exist to Left Click to select a cell and then Shift + L...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support exactly once message delivery for Kafka

Due to the lack of support for the exactly-once delivery model, StreamSets Data Collector cannot be used in a large number of practical use cases, which significantly reduces its overall applicability. The importance of exactly-once delivery is fu...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Preserving Column Order for ROWID and XML Columns in ADB2GEN

In the ADB2GEN program, generating the DDL with the following parameters GENROWID = 'O' and LOBOBJECTS = 'C', allows the ROWID column to be created in the same position as in the source table. This is particularly useful when the ROWID column is n...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Stateful APIs to utilize agent/s inside my apps

Stateful APIs to communicate with orchestrate as headless service to be able to design my own interface or utilize agent/s inside my apps the way I like.
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid to hard code credentials in tls.properties file to use encryption profile.

As per discussion with IBM support team, we need to hard code keystore and trust store password in tls.properties file to use encryption profile with "REQUIRED" and "ALWAYS" options mentioned in IBM documentation - Adding an encryption profile on ...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Certain items that fail the modulus check do not trigger an error.

FROM TS007184858 When a modulus 11 routine is applied to checks for fields 3 (account) and 7 (aux-on-us) . If the modulus routine results in the check digit of a 10, it is represented by a dash in the MICR field. For certain items that have a nume...
4 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Submitted

An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

add format SQL and separate query block functionality that was in Data Studio

format SQL especially helpful to aid tuning. Functionality provided in Data Studio but missing in UMS - these options we along side import DGTT DDL
5 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted