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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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193 VOTE

Allow users to see status of their report runs

In Cognos 10 users had the option to go to "My Activities & Schedules" to see the status of their report runs. Sometimes a long running report could be still running or it could have experienced an error when running. Users used to be able to ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration
144 VOTE

Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Increase Limit for processing LOB values

We want to use the new OAM S3 interface. But we are hitting the limit of 50GB for processing LOB values.This results in errors with Resource unavailable and REASON 00C900D2.Before V12 there were two zParms LOBVALA and LOBVALS which could be set to...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

WCAZ SAAS must be HIPPA certified or customers in the Healthcare Industry cannot leverage it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated

HIPPA certification is mandatory for any IBM SAAS service used by most of our Healthcare customers. Given that the LLMs do not interact with data, the certification process should hopefully be easy for the team, while opening up this market/industry.
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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

Setting Variables, such as style or render, should be available on multi-selected items

If I want to apply the same attributes to multiple items in a report, then I can select the many items and apply the property.For example, if I want to apply the same conditional style, font to a number of list columns then I can select all the ap...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

On-Behalf-Of Flow for IBM Planning Analytics

At the moment for IBM Planning Analytics v12, we have the following limitaitons: It does not support SSO. It does not support CAM. Therefore when we want to connect IBM PA to WxO, or WxBI, it's more a personal thing, meaning every users need...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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
204 VOTE

Single Sign-On (SSO) in Planning Analytics Workspace

Based on IBM PMR 46964,060,678 - Single Sign-On (SSO) implementation to Planning Analytics Workspace is not supported as of today.
almost 9 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Allow ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration