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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    Industry Accelerator "SAP": Proactive Enhancement of IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) and watsonx.data for German SAP Customers and SAP BW Migrations

    To maintain and grow IBM’s relevance in the SAP ecosystem—especially for German-speaking customers—we must proactively enhance our catalog and metadata solutions (IKC and watsonx.data) to deeply support German language, SAP-specific metadata, and ...
    4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

    Create a native schema-type asset to associate database metadata with other assets and tables.

    Today it is not possible to view database/schema descriptions in the IKC. Business analysts need this metadata on IKC to understand databases and relationships. BRADESCO is replacing the current IT data governance (EDC) solution with the IBM solut...
    about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

    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...
    7 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Planned for future release

    A user with DBA privilege should be able to change the owner of a table without need to recreate it.

    When a table needs to have a different owner, it is not possible to change it without recreating such object. It is to mention that Informix 8.21 allowed the change of the owner of the table with the RENAME TABLE statement. This is very usefull wh...
    3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    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

    It would be really helpful for WXCA4Z to be able to ingest Assembler language code and be able to explain it. It would also be helpful to be able to transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++.

    While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...
    13 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

    Data modules connection to AI assistant directly

    Can we Right click on any data module or shortcut of data module can we connect to AI assistant directly in Cognos
    13 days ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

    Disallow Manta workflows with no connections

    Current Behavior: If you create a workflow in Manta which mentions no workflow, it starts analysis and extract on ALL connections. This is very dangerous and can cause manta to crash. The situation becomes worse because after users realise what th...
    13 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Not under consideration

    Cognos changes in Account Configuration summation rule.

    Hi Team, We would like to request your assistance in checking the feasibility of increasing the number of Summation Accounts (Summation Rules) available in Cognos. At the moment, each Cognos account is limited to three summation accounts (Rule1, R...
    13 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

    PAW Enhancement: Proactive Notifications for Updates and Brief Disconnects

    Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, Based on support ticket [Insert Ticket ID], where the team endorsed logging this as an enhancement, I'd like to propose better communication during PAW updates or temporary API disruptions. Users often see alarmin...
    25 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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