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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.

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Allow to add Help Text to the questions in the questionnaire assessment the same way as we have in the Inline Guidance on the task views

Users would like to see the help text on the questions with bold, italic, underline formatting. Right now there is no option to add help text at all, and we have to add it as the addition to the question itself and the whole text is bold and not u...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

HELM Charts for DataStage Deployment

The impact right now is to change the process and add additional workarounds for datastage at the enterprise level. As a organization, HELM has been adopted as a standard since its an industry level standard for quite sometime. This also allow mor...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Ability re-process documents without re-ingestion

Currently we need to re-ingest documents to update any enrichment. This is specifically not very practical when we have WKS model involved. If the model is refined & updated, we need to re-ingest the docs. This is very annoying for customers h...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Limit search to specific area of Team Content

The search ability in Cognos Analytics is much improved from Cognos 10. Now that we're utilizing it more, having the ability to narrow down results to a specific folder or set of folders. Since search only shows 50 results, this would allow us to ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Specify Drill Target Report format when drilling from Dashboard

In Cognos Analytics 11 when drilling through from a Dashboard visualization to a Report want to have the option to select the target report format.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

OpenPages Scheduler - allow client to set max concurrent jobs and display any that are queued.

Currently the system has a hard wired limit of 5 concurrently executing schedule jobs. You can start a sixth one but the system actually queues it to start when one of the others completes. However, the system does not provide any display to show ...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Future consideration

To provide flexibility to also kill threads of "Security Refresh" using PAW

To provide flexibility to kill threads of 'Security Refresh' indicate the necessity of having the ability to terminate processes associated with a security refresh. This could be related to ensuring adaptability in managing or interrupting securit...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to support a configurable list separator

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to configure list separator as semicolon. In Europe decimal notation is comma which means that MS Excel converts comma separated files to semicolon separated files automatically when loaded. This wil...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Provided feature to disable GSKit session cache which is enabled by default.

In order to decrypt I need to have GSKit session cache disabled if the connection is resumed. Alternatively, Please also have the pre-master secret file created for the session
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Auth token renewal feature in the HTTP destination

Please refer to the support case TS018758718 and engineering intervention INT-3254.
5 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review