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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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Embedded agent web chat static content translation

1. Why is it useful? Adding a static content translation feature would significantly improve the accessibility and usability of the chat experience for global audiences. It ensures consistent multilingual experiences across both static and dynamic...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Needs more information

Making testing easier ("impersonation" of another user)

When we test new designs out, it turns out that it is a big pain to set priviledges/user groups correctly. Typically the ones doing testing have broad access rights, but for testing they should have similar access as "real users". This is especial...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

In the Catalog section, for a certain asset there's section "Related Items" - it has headers. I would like to use the headers for sorting. Especially based on "Item type". Now they seem to be in random order.

It is very natural to want to sort lists based on the values, I assume you have simply forgotten to add that functionality? we have case where it would be convenient to sort by relationship type, item type. Possibly by workspace also. You do have ...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

IKC administrator role need to get super privileges' to control all the components

Need a super admin privileges' for the CP4D platform admin users to control all the components of the IKC - Glossary, Catalog, Projects, Connections Due to missing proper access, now facing the challenge when business report some issue with their ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing, only metadata tree is avaiable. Metadata tree is not user friendly it is developer point of view.For example this feature was in Cognos Workspace Advanced were OLAP source can be viewed as met...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhance UMS to fully support AT-TLS.

From time to time we get audit findings for SSL vulnerabilities and so we prefer having that all centralized in AT-TLS to provide better visibility and management than having to tweak individual products.
4 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide mechanism to see 'logged in' users

This is really a Zowe and UMS Idea but I couldn't find Zowe and we use Zowe in support of UMS. It would be very helpful prior to performing any changes requiring a shutdown to know if anyone is currently logged into UMS (and Zowe but since our use...
4 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Deposit some information about latch status in HVCOMMON to avoid Db2 abend

Db2 abended due to EOM in one of its threads (in this case an online REORG). The request is that some more information about thread status is saved in common storage (e.g. HVCOMMON) to help SSSC to cleanup the job and to avoid that it must take do...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration