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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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Allow for customisations to Dashboard to allow for users to edit but not save

Enhancement Request: To customize a role that will allow users to be able to Edit (edit mode toggled on) certain dashboards but restrict them from being able to 'save' those dashboards, instead make them 'save as'. When they next use the 'saved as...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Ability to connect multiple knowledgebases to a single agent

Currently only one knowledgebase can be connected to a single agent. In order to connect multiple databases, the present workaround is to create child agents each with their own separate knowledgebase and then add them as collaborators. This RFE i...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Cascade with Dates

I have a model with 3 fields - Year, Year-Month, and Date. In reporting, I can set up a set of cascading prompts that allow for selecting the Year and then the subsequent months of the selected year and after selecting a Year-Month, the subsequent...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

COPYTOCOPY with new keyword SYSTEMPAGES(YES)

We do FlashCopy image copies by COPY utility and then a COPYTOCOPY to other media from these FlashCopies. Normally the UNLOAD utility can use these image copies generated by COPYTOCOPY, but in some cases not: as the dictionary was created by INSER...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

Ability to add extra table(s) to a view of tables in data module

Using release 11.1x we like the ability to create a view of tables in a data module like we used query subjects in framework manager. Unfortunately it's not possible to add extra to tables to a existing view after the creation. This means that in ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Ability to control what shows in the default IBM tool catalog

As the number of tools available increases, the time to install them increases. Not every company needs all these tools at their disposal.
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Planned for future release

Detect connection status to data source

On several occasions the following scenario has occurred:Lost connection at the origin, however, the subscription remains in the "Mirroring continuous" state, but it is not actually replicating anything, since when validating at the database level...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Run the schedule (or subscription) once

Add a "Run the schedule/subscription once" feature to "My Schedules and Subscriptions"
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to choose cardinality when creating custom relationships between Artifacts.

In current release 5.2.0 relationships are always forced 'Many to Many'. Multiple values may lead to invalid state of record if only one value is allowed in our process.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Needs more information