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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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Glass interface for setting advanced settings improvements

Within CA Glass interface to set advanced settings you have to go to:Manage > Configuration > System > Advanced Settings On this screen you can type in a Key. If the key has been set then the value of the key will be shown. This is a very...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Not able to add data sets to Job or Event Studio

Unlike reports/jobs, data sets do not allow to be added to jobs. So also data sets do not allow to be scheduled using Event Studio. Please provide the functionality, or an alternate option (other than time/trigger based scheduling). Case number re...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Unable to turn off Extended Data Items

Extended data items are on by default and there's no way to turn them off
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multiple Identity providers(idp)using oidc with Oauth for token generation)

Add multiple idp support for Zen Custom tokens for CP4BA - we have multiple IDPS onsite. Westpac consumers using JWT token generated by idps from frontend applications. This JWT token is locally validated by Websphere when request is received for ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Submitted

Adding QDBPPFIX to the realqdbp ODI table.

We want to establish a process to monitor when 4k frames are being utilized for buffer pools defined with framesize(1m). When we try to setup a situation for it, we realized that there is no QDBPPFIX under the list of DB2 BP Attributes, so we requ...
6 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

OOTB skill to execute script

Enhancement description * : OOTB skill to execute client side script other wise one has to always integrate an API (aws lambda/IBM Cloud functions etc.,) just to parse some output and it's an unnecessary API call. Solution *: OOTB skill to execute...
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

In Pafe Slicing from the Cube Viewer should have more options or configurable defaults.

At the moment when slicing from the Pafe cube viewer you always get a worksheet added to the existing book. When slicing direct from a view in the task pane you get multiple options (new sheet, new book, at selected cell). We would prefer to be ab...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Excessive DBHEAP by BLU compression dictionaries

In current design, when SQL statement accesses a table, the compression and expansion dictionaries of that table will be read into DBHEAP and kept there until database deactivation. For column-based table, the memory consumption may up to 100MB. i...
about 9 years ago in Db2 5 Functionality already exists

Allow mixed case for userids for Openpages/CPD

Cause & Issue: Currently, our user IDs in OpenPages are stored in uppercase During our migrating of OpenPages to CP4D, we found that CP4D stores its user IDs in lowercase This has led to the user sync job between CPD4 and OpenPages creating a ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.governance 3 Under review