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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Install TM1py directly on PA Cloud

Currently, the IBM policy does not allow installation of third-party applications on the IBM cloud servers. TM1py is a robust, proven, application-specific, community-supported python library that should be allowed as an exception to this rule. Th...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Future consideration

Granular grant-able authorization to allow explaining all statements stored in DSC

Currently there is a requirement to hold at least SQLADM authority to explain statements kept in DSC, and which were executed with a different SQLID. This is security exposure as for such basic action like statement explain it gives the user all t...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Pixtral 12B - Multiple Image Support

According to the Model Card of Pixtral 12B (Pixtral 12B Model Card), there is support for sending multiple images in a single message. However, the WatsonX.AI API does not currently support this feature, resulting in the following error message: "...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review
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Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
about 6 years ago in Db2 21 Not under consideration

Local separator is not maintained in dashboard Export to CSV when French Language is set for Product and Content Language

Cognos Analytics 12.1.1 provides option to Export to CSV in dashboard (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=dashboards-option-users-export-visualization-data-csv-file). However, when Product and Content Language is set to Fren...
23 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Native integration with AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog (watsonx.data SaaS on AWS)

watsonx.data is being evaluated as a strategic query engine in AWS-based Data Mesh architectures, where governance is managed through AWS Lake Formation and metadata is stored in the Glue Data Catalog. Currently, watsonx.data does not natively sup...
6 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Planned for future release

Lineage should be available in reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules

Cognos lineage works for reports (not interactive mode) using framework packages. Lineage should be available also in the newer cognos tools like reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules. Should be provided as built in to cognos and not a...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

PII detection for labeling or automated scrubbing

Identifying Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in field text is vital for compliance and security purposes to have some call out around PII, or automated scrubbing. We have setup our own PII guardrail as an LLM call to pick up some specific...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 5 Future consideration

Support .TXT files for text extraction

In the overall messaging of watsonx.data Premium for unstructured data, we discuss ingestion of various unstructured documents, which includes word/PPT/PDF and .TXT files. From a unstructured data integration standpoint, .TXT files can be ingested...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review