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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    Copy/Paste Reports (Deployment)

    When deploying a report from one environment to another, using copy/paste to overwrite a report breaks report views and removes the schedule. Prior to Cognos 10.20 this never occurred. We'd like the old functionality back. A workaround currently e...
    over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Conceptual overlays in Manta should support ingestion via git or REST API

    Why is it useful? This help technical data stewards (TDS) who wants to create perspective on top of existing data lineage in Manta to simply the lineage for BDS (Business data stewards or auditors/regulators). Currently, perspective can be created...
    11 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

    Drafts should be available in the reporting DB

    Based on our explorations it seems that drafts are not synced to the reporting DB. We are using drafts, and they are needed for our reporting - if they are not in the reporting DB some of our reports will not work correctly.
    11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

    Allow workflow scope to have multiple categories (subcategories of same parent)

    Right now when creating a workflow, one can specify only one category - the selection is based on radio buttons. So let's say we have primary category "DSA" and under that we have four 'working' subcategories A,B,C,D. We would like to have an appr...
    11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

    Customize data labels on dashboard

    We would like the ability to change the label of a data item that is displayed on the dashboard the way we can change the label in the report authoring environment. This will authors to create cleaner looking dashboards when using data items that ...
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

    BPM designer should not use dropdowns for critical settings

    When hovering over a dropdown, eclipse lets you update it with scrollwheel and doesn't force you to click it first. Unless the dropdown update behavior can be prevented when not clicked, these critical settings should use other UI modules, like ra...
    4 months ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

    Develop a Library of Pre-Built Enterprise Connectors

    I have an exciting new idea, sparked by the actions that followed the remarkable success we achieved using IBM Orchestrate. Develop a Library of Pre-Built Enterprise Connectors The Idea: Offer a marketplace of no-code/low-code "actions" or "skills...
    4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    IBM may introduce a Low-Code Visual Workflow Builder

    IBM may introduce a Low-Code Visual Workflow Builder The Idea: Add a drag-and-drop interface for designing and visualizing complex, multi-step agent workflows, including conditional logic (if/then/else) and approval gates. Why It Matters: Currentl...
    4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

    Create Industry-Specific Solution Templates-IBM Orchestrate

    Create Industry-Specific Solution Templates The Idea: Develop pre-built, customizable agent templates for major verticals like Finance (SOX Compliance), HR (Employee Onboarding), Legal (Contract Review), and Healthcare (Policy Adherence). Why It M...
    4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

    HPU writes tables locally. If HPU could write direct to S3 locations, it would eliminate the need to move files after creation.

    If HPU had a feature to write data directly to S3 buckets, it would make the process for moving data to cloud faster & easier. While initial unloads may be constrained by available bandwidth, the process of writing to S3 immediately starts the...
    4 months ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Under review

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