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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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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

Impersonate User

An admin User could select a function to impersonate a different User in the system. For example a User that has limited or restricted access. This would allow them to test and verify certain functions are working correctly without relying on clie...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 5 Not under consideration

Data Module created from Data Server with multiple connections should be able to use any connection

We have a Data Module set up using a Data Server. This Data Server has two different connections that have many of the same schemas loaded, but the connections have different permissions. Certain users have access to one connection while other use...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0

independent log Reader at Queue level incase of STARTQ command

we came to know that CDC will stand up an independent logstream to play catch and then merge them once current. That prevents to catchup impacts. If IBM could implement similar functionality in QReplication as they have in CDC, it would be a signi...

AI for Inclusion: How Intelligent Systems Can Transform Special Needs, Families, and the Future of Human Development

What if intelligence could be designed to care? Across the world, families of children with special needs navigate fragmented systems—schools that don’t speak to clinics, therapies that reset with every transition, and data that disappears just wh...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Deprecated throw call

There are throw (...) in symphonyDE/DE732/7.3.2/include/soam.h. This pattern repeats on many lines. throw (...) was deprecated in c++11 and was removed in 17. Please remove the throw part. There are ways to make it compatible with all 11:3
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

More Granular Editor Permission in Data Assets

A business-specialist IKC user today cannot securely contribute to the catalog because, by granting them editor permissions, in addition to assigning glossary terms to columns and editing additional information, they can also alter the data classe...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Manta SAP BO Scanner should support SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 Version 14.4.0.5411.4

Background: Manta SAP BO Scanner currently does not support scanning of SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 (Version: 14.4.0.5411.4) and fails to scan.Our organization migrated from SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.3 Support Pack 4 Patch 8 (Vers...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

PAW: Allow formatting of picklist arrow colour in cell

We are bound by string colour guidelines, and have several picklist selectors in a cube and are unable to see the blue picklist arrow. It would be great to have the option to select the arrow colour to show the contrast See attached - unable to se...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Change example lines: 1000

We would like a Row Sample to be able to be configured so we can choose how many rows to display. Often, we don't need a very large data sample. For example, we can use a sample of 10 rows for the user. This avoids displaying unnecessary records t...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review