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.

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    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...
    7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release

    DataStage incorporates multiple open-source components. To ensure system stability and operational consistency, any behavioral changes resulting from updates to these bundled open-source components should be managed and absorbed by the DataStage installer. This approach prevents disruptions during system deployment and post-deployment operations.

    Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
    4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Under review

    Real-Time Reporting Capability in IBM Cognos Analytics

    I would like to request an enhancement in IBM Cognos Analytics to support real-time data streaming for reporting and dashboards. Currently, Cognos does not natively support second-by-second real-time updates, making it challenging to use for scena...
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 5 Not under 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

    PAW - Change Template to Custom Template Type

    After building a 'custom' template, we are not able to re-apply that custom template on pre-existing books to keep the formatting defined/consistent. Additionally, once a book is created from a custom template it is no longer showing the correct t...
    3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 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

    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

    Better UI / bigger windows for selecting render variables, conditional styles etc

    There are numerous windows within the report editor that feel like you are looking through a letter box to try and choose a value. A couple of examples are the Render Variable and Select Existing Conditional style windows. The render variable wind...
    3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

    Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

    For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
    6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review

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