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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.

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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

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

cpd-cli manage command suddenly fails with inconsistent SSL error/timeout when http_proxy, https_proxy, and no_proxy variables are configured

The failure occurs even when correct http_proxy, https_proxy, and no_proxy variables are configured in the environment and inside the OLM Utils container (olm-utils-play-v3). The OLM utility Python client ignores the configured NO_PROXY values. As...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

If Db2 boosts a thread, it should have preference over other boost activities (like zIIP boost)

We had the situation that some threads (DDF threads) hold a latch and this latch is required also for Db2 system tasks. The Db2 boost does not help in this situation because we use zIIP boost during IPL. So from a WLM perspective higher prioritize...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable Agent-Level Security Configuration for Embedded Chat in Watson Orchestrate

Tenant-Level Security Scope in Watson Orchestrate Embedded Chat
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Under review

Create folders inside project

We have multiple users that are currently developing and maintaining 100 of SPSS flows, that are complaining that their projects gets very messy. The solution to this could be to allow folders inside projects. as breaking this out to smaller proje...
30 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

User can share customized dashboard panel with another user

We have users that want to create a dashboard panel which is more focused on their country: e.g. issues assigned to the 4 different managers across their country. This is not something we can make available for every user because of the specific a...
30 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

The default role of a new PAW user should be configurable

In PAW a new user is created automatically, when he logs in for the first time by approproate settings. In this case the new user is always defined as "Analyst" by default. I have a customer, who wants to have new users created as "Consumer". Up t...
30 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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

SAP HCM integration

A lot of customers are transitioning from legacy HR systems, like SAP HCM , to newer ones (SuccessFactors). Since these transitions take normally years they are blocking the real usage of watsonx Orchestrate in the meantime. With an build-in integ...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 9 Not under consideration