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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Add "Show Chore" Option in IBM Planning Analytics for excel Interface

In the IBM Planning Analytics Excel on the interface pane (as per the attached screenshot for reference), users can choose from options such as: Show control objects Show AI jobs Show processes Show dimensions However, there is currently no option...
14 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Implement vault access for storing passwords (instead of storing them in config files)

IBM provides Db2 LDAP plug-in modules capabilities as e. g. described here for Db2 v12.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1.x?topic=support-configuring-ldap-plug-in-modules There are two parameters (keys) listed, namely SSL_PW and SEARCH_PW. Th...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

Proactively post messages to a channel via WXO (API)

There are tons of usecases where it is helpful to be able to proactively send messages to a channel which is connected to wxo already. Assume the following usecase:A user is creating a ticket for something not working in their flat with their prop...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Option to Disable Insight from Cognos Assistant

When the Cognos Assistant is queried, it returns both analytical outputs (such as charts and visualizations) as well as accompanying insights. However, since the Cognos Assistant does not leverage an LLM-based approach, these insights are generate...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Add STMT_HASHID2 in IFCID 316

Can you add STMT_HASHID2 (referred in DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE) field to the IFCID 316 record? It would be very handy in identifying normalized SQL statement text(s).
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Book Information to Workspace TM1 Session Context

Hi all, At the moment, when a user connects via Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE), the TM1 session Context field includes valuable details such as: PAfE/Version (0); Excel/Version (x64, WorkbookName, WorksheetName) This information is extremely ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration
700 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Only records, which are valid at the current point in time should be considered in RUNSTATS

In environments where SQL queries typically consider only the data that is valid at the time of query execution, statistics based on exactly those records provide higher quality than statistics collected over the entire table. In environments with...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

For IBMi SYSTOOLS.DELETE_OLD_SPOOLED_FILES, add number of spool files deleted when Preview => NO

Current implementation deletes spool files but user does not know how many. Would be helpful to return a result for this execution. Similar might be done for deleting old journal receivers.
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted