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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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CP4D support for Oracle 26ai

Currently CP4D offers connectivity to Oracle 21c in Version 5.2.1. Need for CP4D to certify connectivity to Oracle 26ai as the company intends to migrate all Transactional Exadata Platform to Oracle 26ai.
21 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

README.md model card for the Custom Foundation Model

My client wanted to deploy a custom Foundation Model and provide detailed information to WatsonX users, similar to the model cards provided by IBM. However, the Description field cannot contain any information other than text. Even though the mode...
21 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Configurable Query Retry Mechanism for Enhanced Query Reliability

Our backend utilizes Trino on S3, and we occasionally encounter intermittent error messages, particularly when a single Cognos report generates multiple queries against the same data source. This issue is more prevalent in scenarios involving mast...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Live editing of PDF

We would request live editing of PDFs.pdfs cannot be viewed or edited 'live' rather you need to download and re-upload. A large volume of our client's audit evidence is PDF.
22 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Access to information ingested with Manta for reporting purposes (e.g. "which of the 15k database columns in our scope have upstream lineage)

The information provided by Manta is not only for users utilizing the UI. We have a heavy reporting machinery checking if the content satisfies the data governance requirements for key assets. That means that we need to be able to retrieve lineage...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

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

Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

DB2 Upgrades in rolling fashion

Problem Statement: At present we are following IBM process to upgrade db2 hadr servers: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization Current IBM process involves an...
about 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Granular and actionable error logs & chat messages

We encountered a scenario where a user had configured the Agent to connect to a tool that triggered a Python script. While the Agent was connected, it suddenly stopped responding and displayed the following error message: "I'm sorry, it seems I've...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

TTM model availability on watsonx.ai user interface

Time series models are not available through the UI, and only through SDK/API.
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review