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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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Ability to download Uploaded files

Currently there is option to refresh uploaded file. However we cant download file which is uploaded already. The best way it can be fixed is to have download option against uploaded file like one available for themes now.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create an option on the UI to Duplicate a connection in Datastage

Currently we have an option to create duplicate pipelines and flows, but not the connection. It would help the developers if there is an option to create duplicate connection
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Submitted

"Analytics Role" for wxA to Provide View Only Access to the "Analyze tab"

Non-technical business and Product team members need to search for and view logs from individual customer interactions. In the case of the Voice Assistant this would be a phone call.
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Retain Smart TItie Formatting when Drilling/Navigating

In a dashboard with visualizations that support Drill down/Navigate via Navigation Paths , if you format a Smart Title with attributes like color or style on one level of a navigation path and then drill or navigate to another, the Smart Title for...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

ADDI should be compatible to work with CICS CPSM

Lot of customer of ADDI has CICS CPSM implemented and they don't have CICS CSD. And currently ADDI is not compatible with CICS CPSM so it blocking for customers to generated reports from ADDI like transaction call graph and other reports related t...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Provide detailed documentation regarding the "Search" feature

The "new and improved" search feature in Cognos Analytics is currently poorly documented.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rule Trace to include line of code

Add the feature to show what Line Number the rule of code is in the Trace feature. This would just be a great convenience when troubleshooting calculations.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Jupyter Notebook Templates for Spark (Cloud Pak for Data > Projects) UI validation support for extra "=" characters

Jupyter Notebook templates for Spark include the Spark Configuration field to specify extra spark configurations. Currently the UI validation expects key=value but fails when more than one equals '=' character is present. When the UI validation fa...
3 months ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Submitted

Improve Default Failover Configuration and Centralized Management

We recently encountered a situation where, due to thread unavailability on a specific SDC, many jobs got stuck in the RED ACTIVE state. These jobs neither failed nor retried on the same SDC, resulting in no user notifications being triggered. Upon...
3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Introduce Finite Default Retry Configuration in Pipeline

Currently, the default retry configuration is set to infinite retries (-1). In many real-world scenarios, this behavior is not useful — for example, when a job encounters persistent errors such as START_ERROR, it continues retrying indefinitely. T...
3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted