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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    Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

    We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
    over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

    trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

    trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
    9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Planned for future release

    The deployment space should support custome container image.

    My customers wanted to deploy llama-3-3-70b on CP4D 5.0.2 as custom foundation model.But it failed because new architectural change (vLLM) was introduced in this llama model that is not supported by CP4D 5.0.2.There is no valid workaround for this...
    11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

    wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

    When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
    9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

    Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

    A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
    6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

    Remote storage and datalake tables for AIX

    The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. IBM talks about the benefits of those features and related system architectures, but the feature is not available to many of our large enterpris...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

    PAW: Action Buttons -> Toggle on / off pop up display

    Current state: when hovering over an action button, a pop-up appears with the same text of the action button. Proposed state: ability to turn off this pop-up from appearing when hover over. eg setting in properties
    about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    When executing an ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION please do NOT invalidate dependent packages

    ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION is described as an ONLINE schema change. However in our 24/7 environment with tables being used frequently around the clock we cannot execute ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION on our most heavily...
    6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Layout Component Reference dialogue box improvement

    Layout Component References are an amazing feature - they allow us to build reports from a standard library of components ensuring user interface consistency and code reuse across hundreds of reports. They reduce report build times and reduce main...
    3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Add a feature to verify the model details for DoD

    We recently encountered an incident where the DoD model was incorrectly mapped, resulting in an incorrect response and impacting the customer's production environment. Unfortunately, the error was only discovered after calling the Model API. (Case...
    7 months ago in watsonx.ai 2 Under review

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