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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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.

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    Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

    If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
    almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

    Use a report expression as the default selection for a prompt

    Customer would like to be able to use a report expression as the default selection parameter for a prompt. The client would like this ability so that they can use a calculation (example the current date) and have the default selected date be this ...
    over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

    A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

    OpenPages - Entity Filtered list in tree format

    Provide Business Entity parent selection in creation views as a tree format.
    over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Under review

    Support and document AT-TLS for all ports

    The IBM documentation to establish AT-TLS protected connections for CQM does not cover all connections/ports. It only documents part of it. There is only an 'unofficial' blog post how one can achieve it but not in the IBM documentation. Hence it s...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Reads on Standby on DB2 BLU

    Customer would like Reads on Standby when using HADR for Column-organized tables (BLU) . This way customer can split specifics workload between Primary and Standby. It's an old DB2_HADR_ROS restriction that should already be "fixed" in newer DB2 r...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Function Lookup UI for Calculations In Data Modules and Dashboard

    Need a good function lookup UI in the Data Module and Dashboard tools, like exists on the Report tool. That would make it very easy to see what your choices are, and how to use them. Right now, there is no UI. Just an expression editor. You need t...
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Outlook Tools support client credentials flow

    We would like to have a OAuth2 (Client Credentials) supported for the outlook tools.
    2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    Smart Split Data Modeling

    When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Future consideration for chat

    they are some missing interactive buttons- copy- Rerun conversation- Download according to the extension- Evaluation monitoring o👍or not ok- Files attachements
    2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

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