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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Enhanced recovery performance improvement

We encountered significant recovery performance issues (recovery time increasing exponentially as the number of objects rises) and the analysis in a Case showed that this was due to enhanced recovery’s non target index serialization (our backups a...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow Default Settings on a Workbook View to be defined as a System Setting

The New Experience interface (Release 78) of Planning Analytics allows the Overview section to be configured to display Hierarchy Names, Iconography, Context Information and Section Headers. By default only Iconography is set to display. Users fin...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Way to determine if customers are interrupting or being interrupted

Need a systematic way to determine if customers are interrupting or if they are being interrupted. Need to understand if this is driving abandons. "vgwBargeInOccurred is an indicator to see if a barge in has occurred from the user side. However, c...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Mobile App - View Most Recent

Currently in the web version of cognos, you can set the properties of a report to view the most recent version, instead of running it fresh. In the new cognos mobile app, this option does not work, which is a problem (especially for long running a...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Search functionality to search for all Objects containing a specific field name or table name. (Basically return a Report dependency for Users)

Report developers and users can find all Reports with specific field and table names - perhaps to assist making changes or to review for accuracy, etc.

Performance improvement for getPrimaryKeys() query for Snowflake target (Flexrep)

When the IIDR Target instance for Snowflake gets restarted, it runs the below query on Snowflake to get information about the primary keys for the tables. The query is fired for each table in the subscription. (we have 435 tables in the subscripti...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Analytics Dashboard Environment Differentiation

Ensure that the analytics dashboard has differentiation between Draft and Live environment
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release

Deployment environments on assistants

Ensure that an assistant deployed is aligned with agent environment. Draft -> Draft, Live -> Live. this will ensure that any change to the assistant don't affect running agents
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Support of Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication for Salesforce Connection in IKC

The only currently supported option to connect IKC with Salesforce is by using username/password/token authentication which leverages Progress Salesforce JDBC Driver: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.2.x?topic=connectors-salesforce...
2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Transparent handling in hierarchical filters

Hierarchy filter using time as an example: If a quarter is selected first and a month is also selected, the entire quarter is calculated in the dashboard. However, our users would expect only the month selected for the quarter to be calculated. Pl...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted