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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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Avoiding conflicts for multiple users working at the same time on a DataStage flow

With the web interface, two (or more) users can now work in parallel on the same flow. And the last one saving will overwrite all the work done by the others. It would be good to have a mechanism to prevent multiple people working at the same time...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Support all tool interactions in 3rd-party channels

Third party channels do not support form interactions and most pre-built skills tools + all skill flows/workflows are form-based today.
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
about 4 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Need IBM to support userid,password for proxy server authentication

For OIDC configuration for B2C to connect to B2C Tenant we are migrating to a proxy (ZScaler) with Use ID password - Cognos does not support userid password for authenticating to a proxy server. This is a issue for use because UPS Information Secu...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Flexible Data Replication Across IBM Cloud Pak for Data Clusters for watsonx.data as target

Background: As of now, IBM Data replication has no restrictions to be deployed on specific cluster to replicate data from various sources to targets available, however for users who wants to replicate data using watsonx.data presto connector, the ...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 1 Submitted

FTM DB and Datasharing recommendation

Business continuity, High Availability, Scalability, and Performance lead the decision to go with a multi-instance topology, running more than one Financial Transaction Manager instance two or more logical partitions, sharing the same FTM Database...
almost 7 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

On the Web Console for Cloud version allow for calendar functionality for Auto pause and shutdown

Currently the auto pause is either ON or OFF. HoweverNHS scotland want to make auto pause at different times of the day but have different behaviour for Monday to Friday with different parameters at the weekend. Hence a calendar function for speci...
over 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Need access control at project level of Watson Discovery

Customer will use Watson Discovery as the NLP solution. Customer has very specific requirement that group A can only see data set 1, while group B only see data set 2, but in WD, all people can see all projects (including all the files/ data) with...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Unable to clear error: IDAA 436: Failed to collect status from resource manager

The error below shows in the ap issues area in IDAA Appliance. We use IAS. Open alerts (issues) and unacknowledged events +------+---------------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+--------------------...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration