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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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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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Enhance DSNTEP2 und DSNTEP4 to count lots of rows/pages correctly

DSNTEP2 and DSNTEP4 have 6 digits for the #rows and 4 digits for the #pages. If one has more output, it is confusing if you use these counters to position in the output. This has happened on our side. Of course, if one has understood this counter ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Service permissions

In the past we had different User Groups using a tool. for Example one group was using datastage and another one the knowledge catalog. It was easy to say if someone is allowed to use a toolstack, because you just need to give them a permission. E...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Create from existing data Tile - Present content view with folder navigation.

When using the 'Create' tile from the homepage of Cognos Analytics and then selecting to create a report using existing data. Currently the user is presented with a long list of data sets, data modules and packages that they have access to. The co...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Future consideration

Integrate HashiCorp Vault secret management

We want to be able to pull secrets (usernames and passwords) from HashiCorp Vault paths to populate connection fields in the Manta. As we grow the number of connections we have so to does the maintenance upkeep when we need to update passwords, if...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Improve Admin logging level in Cognos logs to capture all the events

Admin activity applies to all the users who use the UI. A user in the context of this deliverable is anybody that uses the application including other teams and the application team themselves. Admin activity applies to the application code unique...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

CDC Forced Stop on Log Deletion

I am writing to request an enhancement in the CDC (Change Data Capture) functionality to include a forced stop mechanism when logs required by the XStream API are deleted. Currently, CDC continues to wait for logs from the XStream API, which resul...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review
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Render Cognos maps in PDF report format

Currently (CA 11.0.7), maps included as a visualization in a report can only be rendered when report is run in HTML format. If the report is run in any other format (i.e. PDF, Excel, CSV..) the maps will never be rendered (never displayed) Please ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Way to determine if customers are interrupting or being interrupted

Need a systematic way to determine if customers are interrupting or if they are being interrupted. Need to understand if this is driving abandons. "vgwBargeInOccurred is an indicator to see if a barge in has occurred from the user side. However, c...
26 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Mobile App - View Most Recent

Currently in the web version of cognos, you can set the properties of a report to view the most recent version, instead of running it fresh. In the new cognos mobile app, this option does not work, which is a problem (especially for long running a...
26 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Search functionality to search for all Objects containing a specific field name or table name. (Basically return a Report dependency for Users)

Report developers and users can find all Reports with specific field and table names - perhaps to assist making changes or to review for accuracy, etc.