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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.

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Layout Component Reference dialogue box improvement

Layout Component References are an amazing feature - they allow us to build reports from a standard library of components ensuring user interface consistency and code reuse across hundreds of reports. They reduce report build times and reduce main...
about 17 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Reduce WO operator log level

Currently WO operator generates a massive volume of logs every time it reconsile. Almost 2 million lines per hour with INFO and DEBUG lines. Customer requested a way to reduce the log level or reduce the amount of data recorded on these logs.
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

dismissing the success toast automatically and/or per time parameter

Hello, for now, if there is a success message for the process or for saving a view or whatever, it is dismissed automatically after 5-10 seconds, maybe not everywhere, but in the most cases, so please check it and update that is has the same behav...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

CP4D (IKC + Manta OEM ) EDB postgreSQL connector support (MDI, MDE, Lineage)

Context: CP4D SW v>=5.2.1 with Manta OEM Customer (Intesa SanPaolo Italy) need to use a CP4D supported EDB postgreSQL connector to implement: - Meta Data Import - Meta Data Enrichment - Lineage (using MDI get lineage from "IKC") Customer use so...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Object Commenting - Reply To

I have demonstrated the Object Commenting feature to our key OpenPages users and they will start to use it by Q1 2026. They have observed though that it may not work too well for oversight users that may be commenting on many different objects to ...
5 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Add time option for expensive trace

I am hearing customers are having issues or aren't wanting to execute expensive traces due to risk. How about adding a timer option to these types of traces so they will run and then automatically turn off to prevent issues and help adoption/confi...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Backup in V12 - allow to exclude files/folders

In Planning Analytics V12, when an administrator requests a backup, it includes all server files, as well as the contents of File Space (which can be browsed using File Explorer).However, this area can contain many files that are not required to b...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Platform-level Control of Knowledge Sources

Request for connections to knowledge sources to be abstracted at the platform layer so that they can be set up and managed by administrators and builders can be selectively given access to specific connections via RBAC without having to disclose t...
about 3 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Alerts/Notifications

Administrators and users should be able to set alerts/notifications that are based on data changes. They s/b able to do this from within the reporting and dashboarding UI's as business requirements demand. You are allowed to set conditional format...
about 5 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Fallback to Db2 when IDAA replication is lagging

When Db2 detects that IDAA replication is lagging under the integrated synchronization process, the query waits for replication to catch up before being served from the accelerator. We need an option controlled by a package parm or zparm that will...
about 5 hours ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted