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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    Increasing the number of Favourite objects, as default is 20 per user

    End-User are able to make/select only 20 records as Favourites. Requesting to Increasing the no of Favourite objects in Openpages from default 20 to 100, or make it as configurable setting. This allows the End-User to mark more favourite objects a...
    over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

    Requirement for a report that can list for cognos controller of the number of new users and users with changed access rights for a defined time span that can be altered

    Requirement for a report that can list for cognos controller of the number of new users and users with changed access rights for a defined time span that can be altered. The report should contain what access rights were removed or added for the us...
    over 1 year ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

    ability to include same application as up and downstream on OMD

    Today Open Manta Designer doesn't allow to draw lineage in both sides to a given application. It needs to be only up OR downstream to a main app. However, we have a lot of cases where an app is at same time, up and downstream to a main app. We ope...
    6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

    Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

    We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

    Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

    For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
    almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

    CDC-style ingestion using Google BigQuery as a source in SDC

    Google BigQuery origin does not natively support CDC. As part of requirement in our project , we are expecting to use the CDC type ingestion for Google BigQuery as a source in Streamsets. Please consider this requirement and enable this functional...
    8 months ago in StreamSets 4 Needs more information

    Allow insertion of session variables on context and/or prompt on AI Guided Actions

    To enable more flexible AI-guided actions that cover a wider range of use cases, I suggest using session variables as context in the Grounding Context section and/or Prompt Instructions.
    12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

    Adding a search box for IMS Definitions when creating Virtual Tables

    Currently, when creating IMS Virtual Tables, users must select a DBD and PSB from a dropdown list. However, since these follow a naming convention, finding the correct DBD or PSB can be time-consuming and inefficient. To improve usability, I propo...
    12 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Standard forms with dimensions in rows in Controller Web

    Many customers are using 2-4 free dimensions and have at least one standard form using dimension (expanded) in the row definition. This is not supported in Controller Web where you can have only one dimension in column (and another in filter).
    over 3 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

    Logging of assignment of permissions

    Assignments of permissions on all objects should be logged into the Audit Database or a log file. It's important to see who gives whom which permissions and when.
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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