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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.

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111 VOTE

NONBLOCKED option for event monitors to prevent them from blocking user services

Db2 locking event monitor may block deadlocked applications from proceeding for a purpose of making event monitors work under some circumstances. (Reported on case TS007885986) Since it could damage user's business services severely, user should b...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Improvement of Report Functionality in PAFE for Enhanced Data Analysis and User Productivity

Currently, users face limitations in their report, which hampers productivity and the ability to analyze data effectively. Issue is When a value is entered in "As Value Mode" and the formula is overwritten, the formula will not reappear in that re...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Access to information ingested with Manta for reporting purposes (e.g. "which of the 15k database columns in our scope have upstream lineage)

The information provided by Manta is not only for users utilizing the UI. We have a heavy reporting machinery checking if the content satisfies the data governance requirements for key assets. That means that we need to be able to retrieve lineage...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review
249 VOTE

Rerun schedule

Sometimes it is important to be able to rerun a schedule. Cognos 10 had the funktionality in my activities and schedules
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Login support with both IBM ID and SSO for watsonx Orchestrate on AWS

By default, watsonx Orchestrate on AWS allows users to log in using their IBM ID. Additionally, Single Sign-On (SSO) login can be enabled upon request. However, once SSO login is enabled, logging in with an IBM ID is no longer possible. In custome...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

A new role that allows users to create definitions but not execute them (not allow quality and monitor quality rule assets)

This new feature will allow for more granular user control, allowing administrators to create different user groups based on this role.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

ability to set default value for email delivery method.

When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release
244 VOTE

Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration

warn users about deprecated (foundation) models

It would be nice if our products that use foundation models directly or indirectly (watsonx.ai, watsonx.orchestrate, Knowledge Catalog, ...) warn users about usage of models that have been deprecated.
28 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

create object storage service node

In recent years, the use of public cloud services has become increasingly common in the environment surrounding SPSS Modeler. As a result, we have received inquiries from customers asking whether SPSS Modeler can directly read from and write to cl...
28 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted