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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.

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Deploying projects from development to production with object mapping

When importing projects from development to production environments, you can map objects to be imported, especially if their names differ between environments. This will ensure a seamless deployment and reduce manual adjustments. Also consider ver...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Custom workflow for quality SLAs

Bradesco requires the possibility to create customized workflows for Quality SLAs, mirroring the functionality available for governance artifact workflows. This would enable better management and tracking of quality service level agreements.
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

Quality rule lifecycle (Draft to Operational stage)

Bradesco requests that quality rules initially remain in a "draft" state and only become operational after being explicitly "published," similar to the lifecycle of business terms. This would allow for review and approval before rules impact produ...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Unify data quality rules per table into a single job

When quality rules are created, a separate DataStage job is generated for each table column. For a table with 100 columns requiring quality analysis, this results in 100 individually processed jobs. Bradesco had implemented a workaround where, aft...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

use a datamodule in Event Studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11 Future consideration

CHCCLP - Return Code Handling in Mainframe and LUW platform

Provide return codes for individual CHCCLP instructions and add features to CHCCLP script to evaluate return code (e.g., if...then...else...) before proceeding with subsequent instructions. Additionally, include an option to set return codes back ...
4 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Consistent LLM Responses Through Parameter Control

The watsonsx.Orchestrate product backend leverages Watsonx AI models, which may have predefined default values. As a result, responses can vary for the same query, making it difficult to predict exactly what the LLM will generate within Orchestrat...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review
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+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Give a deeper and understandable access to PAW logs

Today, it's almost impossible to investigate when PAW doesn't work as expected. We had 2 type of issues : MDX code which didn't compile in PAW, how to know why ? User who isn't able to connect to PAW at a time and suddenly with no visible reason, ...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

Reduce the number of locks propagated to CF for DGTT processing

DGTT are limited to the local DB2 and the local thread, as the local thread owns this DGTT and the local Db2 owns the required WORKDB resources to materialize a DGTT. Therefore it makes no sense to propagate any lock related to a DGTT to the CF. F...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review