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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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Cognos changes in Account Configuration summation rule.

Hi Team, We would like to request your assistance in checking the feasibility of increasing the number of Summation Accounts (Summation Rules) available in Cognos. At the moment, each Cognos account is limited to three summation accounts (Rule1, R...
15 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Add Python 3.14 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX

Add Python 3.14 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX The Python Package Index only contains distributions of CPLEX up to and including 3.12 (see https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files). Please upload wheels for Python 3.14 (yes - let's skip 3.13 en...
28 days ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Add support for custom roles, or create a role with the customer actions

For client: In one of the IAM Access Groups in our IBM Cloud account we want to enable read-only access to the watsonx.orchestrate instance by enabling the following components: watsonx-orchestrate.assistant.read watsonx-orchestrate.skill.read...
29 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

A Github integration ensures enterprise-grade governance, automation, and agility for data engineering workflows. By leveraging GitHub and LevelUp tooling, clients gain robust version control, rollback capabilities, and automated testing/deployment for pipelines and DAGs. It reduces operational risk, accelerates delivery, and aligns with modern DevOps practices.

Large enterprise clients like AT&T, who manage complex data pipelines across hybrid environments, will benefit from streamlined CI/CD processes, improved security, and consistent governance across services. How should it work? GitHub Integra...

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow Cognos Analytics use of the Microsoft graph API to require minimum privileged apis for OIDC integration

Cognos Analytics uses the Microsoft Graph API to resolve group names from their IDs via the following endpoint: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/getByIds Typically, this API requires the Group.Read.All application permission. However, in ce...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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

PAW Security for instances

As both a developer and a user, I would like to see only relevant instances displayed in the side panel of PAW. However, I do not want to have to manually select the instances I wish to view. Instead, I would prefer that this be managed by an admi...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Data gate instance be able to write on Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client want to adopt the Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera to also store data synced from Data Gate for watsonx so that the two platforms can coexist sharing this common layer without requires deploy a new Object Storage class (e.g. Storage ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
12 months ago in Db2 1 Under review