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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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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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Add native assistant variable of last called action

Add a native Assistant variable to store the last called action in the watsonx Assistant. This variable would allow developers to easily reference the most recent action executed, simplifying debugging/logs and enhancing workflow automation. It co...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Enable gRPC endpoints with Satellite in watsonx.data SaaS

If a client wants to connect to watsonx.data on-prem from a IBM cloud application with private links, they need to use IBM Satellite in order to do this. However, Satellite does NOT support gRPC endpoints, only HTTP/S and few other options. watson...
6 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Granular API Key permissions

API Keys should allow for granular permissions across all objects and capabilities, ultimately limited by the associated user's capabilities. This should allow us to assign a specific API key to only run a single report, or access a specific folde...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

API access to IBM Planning Analytics Workspace objects

Using v12 we can use ExecuteHttpRequest to interact with the IBM Planning Analytics REST API to interact with TM1 Server endpoints. As it stands we access Workspace book specification via a keyboard shortcut "Control + Q + /" as per IBM tech note:...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted
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Conditionally Render objects on Dashboards

Include the ability to conditionally render objects in Dashboards. This would allow the user based on CSVIdentityList, the ability to conditionally present a page, based on the user's Group Membership, or based upon other attribute values on the p...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Improve performance for deferred ALTERs on the same object

Db2 supports 4096 partitions in one TS, we have only 2048 partitions. And we want to alter the keyrnages of all partitions. We recognized that the longer the deferred ALTER queue the slower the current ALTER. This is confirmed by development and i...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

Update the view with multiple hierarchies and MDX

Hello Product Management Team, Based on documentation, there is no direct built in functionality to dynamically update a views MDX based on a selection cell within a book in PAW. The StrToSet function can be used to dynamically define sets in MDX,...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Needs more information

Connector to SPSS Modeler on CP4D read flat files with fixed sizes and not delimited

We need to provide the connector in CP4D to read fixed-size flat files, similar to the one available in the SPSS modeler classic out of the CP4D.
about 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Submitted