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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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Automatic loading of data in spreadsheet files

Scenario: We uploaded spreadsheet files in Cognos Analytics and on these we created a data module. Now we need to update the data contained in the speadsheets weekly. Currently there is no functionality to upload automatically the spreadsheet files.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Adding "thinking" parameter in Wastonx SDK and API for Granite-3.2-8b-Instruct to access the dynamic reasoning capability.

Reason:As per https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-granite-3-2-open-source-reasoning-and-vision, granite 3.2-8b-Instruct comes with a dynamic reasoning capability which can be achieved using the "thinking" parameter by setting "thinking=True"...
12 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Chore and Process Messages to remain on screen until closed within PAoC Workbench

Currently in TM1 Architect when you run a Chore or a Process a message will pop up when the Chore/Process has been completed. And you then click Okay. When you perform the same function within the PA Workbench there is a brief green message that f...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Number of Occurrences for Alert

Alerts need to have the option to set a consecutive number of ocurrences for a check before it alerts. This is an option present in other monitoring tools and prevents a lot of false alerts. Example being number of connections, we have an threshol...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to Display Utility Command - V12-CERT-2017

Would like the ability to further filter utilities by their status when using the display utility command.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

REOPT(ALWAYS) on statement level additional to package level

MR0123086821 GGDB208004 Make it possible to state REOPT(ALWAYS) additionally to the bind option as a clause at the statement level.
about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Conflict refiner for heirarchical goals

Idea: Create a multi-level / hierarchical conflict refiner Given a formulated problem that has multiple goals with different priorities, hierarchical goals, if the solution from the first level makes the second level infeasible it is not easy to r...
6 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

export to excel label in the way

when you try to export to excel, there is a label that is unfortunately placed in front of the button that you need to click. See attached video. once you click it, the label can dissappear.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

cDb2 Database names shown in Manta Flow Server lineage should match Database names used in underlying Connection String

We saw an issue while scanning cDb2 Databases in Manta, it shows the databases names that comes from the database engine. In other words, the values that is shown while running the command: 'VALUES (CURRENT SERVER);` in the databases is shown and ...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Automate Nonprofit Grant Writing Workflow

As someone working with a small nonprofit team, I’d love to see IBM watsonx Orchestrate provide a pre-built automation flow specifically for grant writing. Writing and managing multiple grant applications takes time we don’t always have, and autom...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration