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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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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Database sends (DBS) should fail

In Pafe when a user executes a DBS against a cell which is not writeable the formula returns the value of the cell. Not writeable means C level, read-only access, write access but locked. This is counter productive, the job of the formula is to...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Add Support of USING DESCRIPTOR to SQL PL CALL statement

Add Support of USING DESCRIPTOR to SQL PL CALL statement. This will bring the CALL statement supported by SQL PL closer to CALL statement supported for application programs and increase flexibility of coding and maintaining Native SQL stored proce...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Theme color option(s) for Welcome Background

Add options to allow for color customization of the Welcome background and panels for Create, Assistant, and Learn areas. Could allow for common color for entire area or for the various panels independently. Not having this does not allow for comp...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Submitted

Data Lineage Trustworthiness -- Disclose the source of lineage in the MANTA Query API

Preamble:Interactive Brokers has an imediate need for this but there may be other customers, in my view in mature or advanced levels of Manta usage, that might benefit from this. Interactive Brokers is currently using Manta to produce data-lineage...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Putting Ai over a hash network or CubesOS

I believe the idea to put Ai onto CubesOS, as pertaining to bootup phase and thereon, unto eliminating interference by manipulating prompts or while Ai is being utilized. I would constantly see misinterpreted or censorship like qualities due to ba...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

File based ingestion using IBM Manta Data Lineage

Nordea cannot connect direct DB technologies for security reasons and require file based Data Lineage and metadata ingestion for following connectors - ORACLEMSSQLHiveMicrosoft SSISMicrosoft SSASPowerBIInformaticaJava
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Add Websphere Application Server Network Deployment support for Cognos 11

Currently Cognos Analytics 11 does not support any Application Server other then the included Websphere Liberty Profile.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add eventid to Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT)

The eventid is important for SDK applications and should be written to Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT). For example when we want to determine a history object from the information provided in the Audit database. Currently there are only the sess...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Bullet Chart Modifications

The latest version of the bullet chart in 11.1 has been modified to allow for repeating columns or rows based on a category which is great. However there are a number of problems with the chart that we would like to see changed to better meet the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Dynamic email headings

Dynamic email headings: in scheduled reports and burst reports it is not possible to dynamically set the content of the email subject header: it would be nice if you can dynamically set the heading of an email to include for example the group valu...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration