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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.

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Automatically display the Primary hierarchy by default in Persona UI

Currently, when users open the catalog in Persona, the hierarchy field appears blank, requiring manual selection each time.It would be more efficient if the hierarchy defined as Primary in the model were displayed automatically by default. This en...
3 months ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Audio response embedded in wxa/wxo

wxA/ AI Assistant Builder has an audio response feature (see attached file), however when using this with a live phone conversation, there is some latency given that the audio file needs to be hosted outside of wxo/ wxa. IBM should host typing or ...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Improvements to Custom Controls

The native custom control system makes integrating custom elements a great deal easier, but there are a few areas for improvement. Defined drop zones on the pageI would love to be able to define drop zones similar to other Cognos objects like grap...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

PAFE Converts Uploaded CSV File Formats

Hi, When we upload/publish a CSV file to server using PAFE, and then we checked the file on tm1 server using notepad, we see that formatting of the CSV file is changed. We upload a file with semi-colon separated values and using comma as decimal s...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expand error message -532 and output parent table name and child table name

Table1 has 4 level foreign key Table1 to Table2 --> FK_01 Table2 to Table3 -->FK_01, FK_02 Table3 to Table4-->FK_01, FK_02 Table4 to Table5 --> FK_01 If I delete row in Table1, I get the message: DSNT408I SQLCODE = -532, ERROR: THE REL...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Inherit data security in datasets from packages and data modules based on data connections

When a data set is created based on a data module or package, the data security access rights of the originator (package/data source or datamodule/data source) are not inherited. Therefore carefully set data access on dataconnection and package le...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search result to be highlighted

Problem statement/pain point: Search with search bar in the main panel, return relevant asset list. But search does not provide information on where the search term hit the asset or the asset's metadata(e.g.asset name, description…). No workaroun...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Prevent VPSIZE(0) Bufferpool When Objects Exist

The idea would be to have a restriction or rule in place to prevent an alter bufferpool to VPSIZE(0) when objects exist. Setting it to zero when unintended can cause major problems.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[AI Agent Routing] Presenting multiple routing options to users

We have projects leveraging tens of assistants for user request handling. No matter how those assistants are grouped and descriptions are well written, there will always be situation where we'll need more disambiguation. The idea that we are propo...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration