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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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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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Add the ability to reset passwords for non-interactive/fs accounts within the PAW --> Administration / Welcome Kit Settings page

To ensure appropriate security protocols are established; passwords for all accounts interacting with our environment need to be rotated on a regular basis. The ability to trigger this activity should be self-service similar to the rotation of ric...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard data tray available in Read mode

The data tray is only available in Edit mode. Often users want to be able to see the numbers behind the visual. Currently the user either has to switch to edit mode.We dont want basic users seeing the complexity of dashboard authoring tools just t...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0

LDAP Authenication for HQ

Allow the option to use LDAP for HQ Authentication. Build the user name in HQ but allow it to use domain authentication. This would also allow HQ to write backups to mapped drives. See Support Case TS007408895 for further details.
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

IBM Z Common Data Provider template for the User Define SMF Record Type 249 cut by DVM

The customer is using IBM Z Common Data Provider (zCDP) to stream SMF records in real-time to their Splunk. zCDP provides policies for all the non user define SMF records, the SMF249 is a user define record, hence zCDP can't reference o it, so it ...
almost 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 3 Planned for future release

Update calculation for "Total CPUs" field in RTMweb grid_clusterdb.php to sum of cores*nprocs from sum of maxCPUs

Need to see the total number of CPU cores aggregation correctly.
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

OIDC support for Native Oauth in IBM Api connect

Business Need Enable API Connect Native OAuth to: Maintain client registration and subscription in Developer Portal. Handle OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow internally. Redirect end-user authentication to an external IdP (Ping) during /auth...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Add RTM support for Oracle Linux 9

Support for Oracle Linux 9
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

List of all bugs per version

As a consultant I work in many different PA environments, most of them being local installations and therefore many different versions of PA/PAW/PAfE. Today when we find a bug or issue at one client we report it to IBM support. Then we have to wai...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Retain Filter Preferences per User Login in Cognos Dashboards

Currently, users must manually reapply their preferred filters each time they log in or refresh the dashboard. Allowing Cognos to retain user’s last selected filters based on their loginID would save time, improve efficiency, and create a more per...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Request for agent conversation CloudWatch logs to isolate PII

We are required per our internal AI policies to capture all agent conversations. Right now we are configuring access on our end to the existing service level CloudWatch logs. We need a separate CloudWatch log for the agent conversations, as they m...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists