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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.

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Watson Code Assistant Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks. This will improve developer productivity immensely.
5 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 1 Under review

The feature of viewing package data sources is not present in Cognos11

The feature of viewing package data sources in package > actions > more is not present in Cognos11. We like this feature to be in Cognos 11
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Data Move Wizard

Provide a capability that will allow users to move objects and children objects from one business entity to another without needing to move each object individually.Users will have the ability to :o Filter for objects to moveo Select one or many p...
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Not under consideration

Request for Individual Term Approval in Bulk Load Process

Hi, Currently, when we import all terms in a single batch, the workflow processes them as one step—either all are approved or all are rejected. This does not allow us to approve or reject specific terms as necessary. How it should work: When we lo...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enable queryValue() and queryValues() for Report Queries and Data Items

As of today, both macro functions queryValue() and queryValues() can only be used with direct source paths (e.g., package or data module). It would be extremely beneficial for report authors if these functions could also reference report queries a...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Sequence number, row number of the record

When using MySQL DB as a source and in case of multiple transactions done in the same commit cycle, there is no way to know the sequence of executed transactions. In the journal control fields, there is a commit cycle id (CCID), this is same for m...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize content of MyTasks (e.g. additional columns/headers, etc.)

Currently, the content and layout of the My Tasks tab cannot be changed. Information is limited only to the ‘Type’, ‘Workflow Name’, ‘Stage’(Status), ‘Criticality’ and ‘Stage Due Date’. Some of this information may not be valuable to most of our u...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

ElIsAnc for Perspectives and PlanningAnalytics for Excel

Hello, we need the function ElIsAnc for Perspectives and PAfE. This function would be very good for controlling the formatting of each line element in an Active Form without complicated detours using an ELISANC check.It would also be desirable to ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Modify Messaging to Clarify Why a Table Is Being Dropped and Recreated

When reading the output from the compare portion of Alter reports, it isn't always clear what part of a change requires a drop and recreate of objects. We are making a change to a column from NOT NULL to WITH DEFAULT NULL, and the wording isn't re...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists