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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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Allow sort by column measure of crosstab on a dashboard

The Crosstab visualization on a dashboard does not allow for sorting based on the measures displayed in a column.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Setup for DR/Resilience, and dependency between services

The HAScripts ( InfoSvrServices and InfoSvrEngine) do not cover all the processes now required for a full DataStage installation. Some of the processes are set up as services on install e.g in /etc/systemd/system I can see DFDServer InfoSrvKafka I...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Display Action Status on Folders in watsonx Assistant

In watsonx Assistant, each action has a status, and if it is red, it indicates an error. However, when the action is inside a folder, you need to access the folder to check the status. The suggested improvement is to display the status directly on...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0

Hyperlinks Directly Embedded on CA Dashboard

We would like to embed hyperlinks on the dashboard so we can have a direct link for our users to click into. We have thousands of records with unique identifiers linking them back to our CRM platform. It would be a lot easier to embed a hyperlink ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Planned for future release

Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

File Upload Option on PAFE Action Buttons

Allow users to upload files to the "model_upload" directory from a PAFE action button would be incredibly useful. It streamlines processes where a user creates an upload template and then has to move over to PAW to click an action button to upload...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Create a TI function that allows subsets created to be sorted at the same time

When creating dynamic subsets using a TI process, there is no way to sort the results created. It would be nice to have a function, called SubsetSort for example, that could be added after SubsetElementInsert to sort the results as the subset gets...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Improve Polish Translation in IBM Cognos Controller Web

We have identified incorrect Polish translations in IBM Cognos Controller Web interface for basic form types. These terms are used daily and are critical for usability. Current translations are not only inaccurate but misleading: English: Standa...
about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Is a defect

Request to add agents export option in ADK

Using ADK 1.15, exporting an agent includes every single connection in the service instance which is time-consuming and not useful. We request to add an export option in "orchestrate agents export" command to selectively export connections based o...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists