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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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Writing Iceberg data format working with specific catalog (for example Dremio)

Hi Using CPD Datastage tool, we can write a data in Iceberg format using Generic S3 component. But we want to write this iceberg format data that we wrote to a Storage volume to a desired catalog (Hive, Nessie, etc.). In this transfer, we cannot s...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Redirected Recovery - make REPAIR CATALOG a part of the Redirected Recovery processing

the REPAIR CATALOG on target tablespaces is a must complete step before the data is accessed or indexes rebuilt on the data. If we always need to do this then can this step be included, maybe as a REPAIR CATALOG phase, to the redirected recovery p...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Raise learning of large codebases to be a dominant requirement

As part of Linux kernel team, I have to deal with a very large codebase. Booting up with this code base is not trivial and takes a very long time. WCA team should consider the learning task a highly important feature. This can save thousands of ma...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Functionality already exists

Format Negative numbers in parentheses in dashboard

We have cognos analytics 11.1.7FP2. We wanted to change the way negative numbers are displayed on a dashboard. IF there are negative numbers like -2567 we want to be able to change the format and show it as (2567) on a dashboard. It works fine in ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Rerun Failed Reports

Every once in a while we have a database down when scheduled reports are set to be run. When this happens we have to re-run the scheduled reports. Currently the process is to filter on past report schedule history, select failed reports. Open the ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

External agents can communicate with wxO Agents via A2A

External agents/platforms should be able to communicate with agents in WxO using the A2A protocol.
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

Make the production NRS mount CIFS mountable

While NRS is a great product it requires a backup of the database before registering it into a DR server as a valid NRS database. The backup of the database must still occur and be stored. Once stored the backup must be moved to the DR server(s) t...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

When we delete any platform connection, it should be auto deleted from projects also which have them connected

When we delete any platform connection, it should be auto deleted from projects also which have them connected. In absence of this, connections become stale at project level and user gets failure when they start using it next time.
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

bconf supports to update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file

regarding TS020747969, we wanted update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information

Expand and collapse capability for hierarchical dimensions in cognos lists in report studio

The requirement by client is the tabular data should provide the facility to expand and collapse to see the breakdown of dimension with hierarchy. e.g. If user expands column A that contains hierchical dimension, it should expand to column B and s...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1