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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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Support legacy application types in PAx

Application folders are not only used for Excel sheets which is the only supported file type in PAx as of v32. Applications are used to:- Consolidate TI processes (for admin and business users)- Link to views in control cubes for metadata review, ...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Navigation Paths for Data Modules

Need to have the option of bring a navigation path create in a data module forward when you link it into another data module Steps Create 'Data Module A' which contains Navigation Path(s), security, property setting Create 'Data Module B' and s...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SFTP: Need the ability to use Keys

Our Security department requires a SSH key to be used rather than a SFTP connection to pull data from IBM WatsonX.gov. This is currently not supported by the product. IBM needs to update their platform to use SSH key so we can properly pull data.
4 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Add AMI name regexe Option into Symphony HostFactory AWS template

Currently, Our AMI name alias remain constant for successive iterations such as symphony-worker-ami-<time stamp> as AMI version control. We request IBM can add option by providing AMI name instead of static imageID. Symphony HostFactory can ...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Enhanced support for Language Adapters

Existing Language adapters are compatible with outdated services on partner platforms. Currently only google V1 voice is supported with a language adapter which leads to multiple critical variables such as timeout duration not being passed properl...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

changes in the configmap when using BYOM should be pushed dynamically to the related InferenceService CR

Currently with all existing version of watsonx.ai on CP4D, changes in the configmap require a manual intervention to restart the operator pod & delete the existing InferenceService. This is quite combersome and may cause delays in large custom...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

"mask sensitive credentials retrieved through API calls" true by default on connections

Improve default security posture.
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Format Manager and consolidated cells

The format manager has a lot of great features that make applying styles to a cube viewer easier. However, a basic need is the ability to change the colour of a cell if the cell is consolidated, this currently is quite difficult to apply and the r...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Not under consideration