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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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



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Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Allow additional parameter configurations, like transaction isolation level, during DB2 connection setup

Currently, options such as setting the transaction isolation level are only available in the 'Generic JDBC' connector. By enabling these settings directly within the DB2 connection setup, users will have greater flexibility and control over connec...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Get Mail Attachment from Get all emails

Whenever we fetch the emails from the outlook Get all emails connectors shows Boolean output for Attachment present or not but there is no option to download the attachment. If this feature is available it will be easy to fetch attachment and work...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Sum row in PAfE

A totals line is desired in the exploration in PAfE. Currently, only totals columns are possible.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Unable to select dimension aliases in FM with PA native data source

We created a PA Data Source now using FM to test captions on measure dimensions. We found the ability to select different alias on different dimensions is no longer available. So now there is no control as to what alias we can include in the publi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

AuditDBCleanup for Cognos Analytics

A version of the AuditDBCleanup tool for Cognos Analytics is needed to provide easy cleanup capabilities for IBM Cognos audit logging databases, allowing old database records to be deleted regularly based on a timestamp.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Watsonx.ai / AI Factsheet should provide a control between the Deployment space stage_type and the Use Case tag being associated with the Deployment space

Currently, a deployment space with stage_type=Production can be associated to a Use Case as workspace "Develop". This will cause problems when trying to associate the correct Use Case workspace. The control works when at the level of association b...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Dynamically Filter List of Report Names in Folder

In addition to the "Filter By type" and Sort By options at the top of a list of Report Names in a folder, provide a text box to Filter the list. For Folders with many reports it takes a long time to scroll down in segments and a long time for the ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add schema to ifcid 62

Hi! I use IFCID 62 to track DDL usage and I have always found it a little bit annoying that the SCHEMA name is not part of the IFCID062 ouput. You get everything else but not the schema... this makes it difficult to impossible to see exactly what ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration