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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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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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Allow the jupytertheme package to enable Dark Mode in Jupyter Notebook.

Dark Mode is configurable for the IBM data platform on IBM Cloud and is the default for on-premises Cloud-Pak-for-Data. However, this only applies to the Cloud-Pak-for-Data homepage. Dark Mode is not available for Jupyter Notebooks on either platf...
7 months ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Under review

remove URL reference to IBM Cloud based on user role (or configuration)

Once logged in to CPDaaS, a standard user can access the IBM Cloud environment of the customer account by clicking on “IBM Cloud” on the menu (see also screenshot added). It should be possible for the account admin to remove this “IBM cloud” link ...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

push existing CPD notifications to external issue tracker (e.g., JIRA)

The execution of a workflow in CPD triggers a notification which is assigned to a specific user group in CPDaaS. Now the notification is only visible in CPD. The customer wants to make the notification available to an external issue tracker to mak...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Create Datasets/Dashboards from an existing Cognos Report

Create a dataset directly from an existing Cognos report and refresh it on a schedule.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REST API endpoint for performance optimized writeback with arrow format

With more and more TM1 implementations happening in the cloud, we see more data loads using REST API / TM1py instead of Turbo Integrator. When using TM1py or the REST API, the best performance you can accomplish right now is to be on par with Turb...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support for Cognos Portlets

Cognos 11 no longer support Portlets that we were able to create in Cognos 10 Portal pages.Most commonly used are the Dashboard "multipage" portlet, the Cognos content "IBM Cognos Navigator" portlet and a variety of the "IBM Cognos Utility" portle...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Classification hierarchy visualization

1. adding classification relationship to a governance artifact and/or asset - The current view while adding classifications to any governance artifact/asset shows all available classification schemes and values in a list. - To better understand th...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Timezone of the Flat File to be in local time zone

Currently, the flat files generated via CDD to Datastage has the timezone with UTC timestamp. This is causing issues when the local timezones are different from UTC. Ideally it should be set to the local timezone of the CDD Target and should be co...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

CDC statistics tables or files needed for continuous monitoring

Currently CDC does not write continuous statistic out to a table or file or other. It is only possible to issue a query to get this information in a report format. But a report is not a solution for continues monitoring or getting an historical vi...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 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