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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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SAP Odata connector must support filters applied on properties that are not present in the returned dataset

Currently, the connector is able to filter based on the properties returned in the dataset by composing URLs like:.../YPP_CP_TASK_CP4DResults?$filter=A4YPP_CP_TASKZCPR_PROJ eq '802-P0009'. The SAP OData service allows the definition of properties ...
5 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing). ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Promp...
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

We need the Oracle Instant Client to be supported by CDC Replication Engine.

We are requesting IBM official support for the Oracle Instant Client with CDC Replication. These items have been identified by IBM as potential exposures with the Oracle Instant Client: - No official support for CDC with Oracle Instant Client. Ora...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Notebook functionality within Orchestrate UI

Inspired by the release of Open Notebook, similar functionality within the Orchestrate environment would be powerful, especially if it can connect to WatsonX.ai-hosted models, and/or use the Orchestrate AI Gateway. The idea would be to create a pr...
23 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Change DB2_DATABASE_CF_MEMORY to automatic without having to stop the entire instance.

The client switched to the Db2 LUW PURESCALE solution for high availability, but noticed that some parameters, including DB2_DATABASE_CF_MEMORY, cause unavailability when changed. The client requests that this parameter be dynamic so as not to shu...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review
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Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Add limit for multi choice filters

In order to allow Cognos (integrated in OpenPages) to elaborate reports' queries, we ask to add a blocking message when too many items are selected. We would prefer a dynamic message: if not possible, a fixed cap would also be acceptable. We ask t...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Under review

Improving the saved search functionality in Watson Discovery Content Miner to better support usability for larger user groups

Background: In our organization, we anticipate that approximately 100 users will be actively actively working with the Watson Discovery Content Mining application. Each user is expected to create and maintain around 2 saved searches, resulting in ...
4 months ago in Watson Discovery 1 Submitted

Support Request: Integration of cpd-cli Backup and Restore with Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM)

To meet a critical customer requirement, we are seeking support for the integration of the cpd-cli backup and restore functionality with the Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM), which is the customer’s homologated enterprise backup sol...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

IBM Db2 Bridge support on AIX and SuSE Linux (SLES)

We use Db2 LUW exlusively on the AIX and SuSE Linux platforms. It would be very advantagous and a mandatory framework conditon in our company, if Db2 Bridge will also supported on this platforms.
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Bridge 2 Under review