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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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Enable Per-Namespace Logout URL Configuration with id_token_hint

We request the enhancement of IBM Cognos Analytics to support namespace-specific Logout URLs, rather than the current limitation of a single, global logout redirect. In environments utilizing multiple authentication namespaces (e.g., a mix of SAML...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

New PAW visualisations required

We have a need to bring into PAW visualisations in two chart types which, currently, we need to build in PAW but the range of visualisations can't support the design we want. We require two chart types to be included amongst the current suite of v...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

HEIC/HEIF Support for Document Processing

Enhance the Document Processing tool to include native support for HEIC and HEIF image formats. This enhancement would allow the system to ingest and perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on high-efficiency files typically generated by iOS d...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 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...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 5 Not under consideration

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.
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

DSN-Command -STA PROFILE GROUP

DSN-Profiles are managed using catalog tables DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES, but are not automatically activated upon insert / update. Instead a DSN-command -STA PROFILE must be executed. In a Db2 datasharing system, I can only have...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Syntax-Verification of DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES entries upon insert / update

Db2 Systemprofiles are configured via the two tables DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES and are filled by the customer. Some fields are restricted to specific values for proper function. However, there is no errorhandling, in case of inv...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Option to change Field type from Simple String to Large Text

We are facing the challenge that after implementation, it is found out that simple string fields do not allow enough characters to be added and therefore we need to change the field into a large text field.This is currently only possible by creati...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release