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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.

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 server group assignment to Cube Stop and Start job tasks

We currently have 25 dynamic cubes over 4 server groups. A cube will reside in a cluster of dispatchers assigned to a server group. We need a way to restart cubes without having users queries run against a cube that is starting
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Design canvas features for PAW sheets

At present, Planning Analytics Workspace allows the user to include design elements, such as images and videos, in reports, but the lack of several basic features of common design tools like Adobe Illustrator make it unwieldy to create highly-desi...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace dynamic screen size scaling

Currently in Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.72 you need to setup width and height of page size in pixels. You cannot set percents. It would be great if you could set page size (width x height) to 100% x 100% and then it would dynamically scale a...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Enable AWS Secret Manager credential stores to assume the IAM Role of a a different AWS account

Currently, there is a limitation with SDC credential stores in that the credential store cannot be access cross-account. Maximus has a business requirement to move to AWS credential store and requires cross-account access.
5 months ago in StreamSets 8 Planned for future release

Integration with Microsoft Copilot 385 , Office 365 , Sharepoint and Microsoft Team

This is very important, as follows: 1- most enterprises use Microsoft Applications in the Forefront and IBM Agentic AI for Enterprise in the Back End, 2- We can do the Digital transformation smoothly and keep the investment in Microsoft technologi...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Functionality already exists

Getting Server error '500 Internal Server Error'

when user has given prompt, getting Getting Server error '500 Internal Server Error' response: Failed to get a valid response from LLM API: 500: Unable to process LLM request: Server error '500 Internal Server Error' for url ' https://private.us-s...

incorrect conversion from python2.7 to python3.x for the dictionary dict.has_key()

when user has given prompt to convert dict.has_key() from python2.7 to python3.10 Watsonx returned incorrect response as it converted dict.has_key() to get() method correct way is, dict.has_key() should replace with ".in" keyword for dictionary di...

Reorg un

Title: Enable REORG to materialize column order changes safely Product/Component: Db2 for z/OS → Utilities → REORG Problem: Adding a column inserts at end; achieving a “middle” position requires unload/rebuild of large PBR/PBG tables, causing risk...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Chart - Dark Outlook

Idea Details Problem statement / pain points (real-life scenario): When Cognos reports containing charts are distributed by email, the legend text is not visible for users who have enabled dark mode in Outlook.For example, in the attached screensh...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Add support for top level union schemas in Kafka Avro schema support

Support top-level unions for Avro schemas instead of just top-level record schemas. Example top-level union: ["null", { "type": "record", "name": "SampleRecord", "fields": [ { "name": "id", "type": "string" }, { "name": "name", "type": "strin...
9 months ago in StreamSets 2 Not under consideration