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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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Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow click+drag functionality to highlight cells

In Contributor our users were accustomed to being able to left click a cell and drag their mouse to select a large group of cells at once. In PAW they are not able to do this. The option does exist to Left Click to select a cell and then Shift + L...
8 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

SFTP processor does not fetch new files

The issue manifests in such a way that the SFTP processor processes only some files, while other files are not processed at all. The root cause is that the StreamSets engineering team implemented the SFTP processor using offsets instead of file na...
8 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Support exactly once message delivery for Kafka

Due to the lack of support for the exactly-once delivery model, StreamSets Data Collector cannot be used in a large number of practical use cases, which significantly reduces its overall applicability. The importance of exactly-once delivery is fu...
8 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Preserving Column Order for ROWID and XML Columns in ADB2GEN

In the ADB2GEN program, generating the DDL with the following parameters GENROWID = 'O' and LOBOBJECTS = 'C', allows the ROWID column to be created in the same position as in the source table. This is particularly useful when the ROWID column is n...
9 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Stateful APIs to utilize agent/s inside my apps

Stateful APIs to communicate with orchestrate as headless service to be able to design my own interface or utilize agent/s inside my apps the way I like.
9 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid to hard code credentials in tls.properties file to use encryption profile.

As per discussion with IBM support team, we need to hard code keystore and trust store password in tls.properties file to use encryption profile with "REQUIRED" and "ALWAYS" options mentioned in IBM documentation - Adding an encryption profile on ...
9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Governing image-based prompts in watsonx.governance

It would be highly valuable if watsonx.governance could support use cases by allowing images to be seamlessly integrated into prompt templates and deployments, in the same way text is currently handled. This capability would enable organizations t...
4 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

ARCRETN - Managing by DFSMS - SMS Management Class

In a situation related to replication delay, it was necessary to keep the Db2 archive log longer than its current retention period. The subsystem parameter ARCRETN was set as 17 days as in Management Class. The planning was to alter the retention ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted