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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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User activity logs on Cloudpak for Data Platform.

There is no logs of user activity on the platform. It would be great to have a user friendly page on the platform, where admin can just to look and get the details of user activity on the platform. Currently, i use zen-audit logs from cmd line to ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

Database Start time in Planning Analytics Administration

The database start time in Planning Analytics Administration only reflects the start time from manual restarts, so it is inaccurate as the databases on the cloud are restarted once per month for scheduled maintenance. This gives an inaccurate perc...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

User can make individual subscription to Private Capture(Oracle Xstream) when needed.

Currently all subcription can be shared or all can be private. There is no way one subscription alone can be made private capture by user. (Setting the CDC Replication property use_staging_store=true, which is the CDC Replication product default. ...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

Offer the same options for shortcut like for report (for example Create report view)

In Cognos 10.2 you have option like Create report view, Edit report, ... directly for shortcut. Now in Cognos 11 this options are available only for report itself.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

IBM may introduce a Low-Code Visual Workflow Builder

IBM may introduce a Low-Code Visual Workflow Builder The Idea: Add a drag-and-drop interface for designing and visualizing complex, multi-step agent workflows, including conditional logic (if/then/else) and approval gates. Why It Matters: Currentl...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

Create Industry-Specific Solution Templates-IBM Orchestrate

Create Industry-Specific Solution Templates The Idea: Develop pre-built, customizable agent templates for major verticals like Finance (SOX Compliance), HR (Employee Onboarding), Legal (Contract Review), and Healthcare (Policy Adherence). Why It M...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

User_id who executed DQ Rule to be made available in IKC BI Data Service Model table dq_rule_execution

We need to know which user executed the data rule. We use different users for live execution and for testing/investigations. We need to be able to filter out test runs from regulatory reporting.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

Ability to add a URL to a Dashboard

Would like the ability to add a URL to a Cognos Analytics Dashboard (currently not a capability in v11 RP5).
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Unrestricted context window for Mistral Large and Llama Models for watsonx.ai Software/ on-prem

One of the differentiators of Mistral large is its large context window. In watsonx however, we restrict this context window for Mistral and Llama models because of performance reasons, see here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/w-and-w/2.0.x?t...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Functionality already exists

License Scheduler - Minimum Preemption Time

It's been observed when the license scheduler preempts a job to free up license resources, the job can occasionally be resumed within 1-2 seconds if license features are freed up during that time. This leads to behavior where processes do not prop...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Functionality already exists