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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Enabling a configurable dump directory for all automatically generated diagnostic files

Currently, Db2 does not support redirecting automatically non -FODC (EDU dumps, stack , “flight recorder” ) dump files to a custom dump directory; instead these files are always written to DIAGPATH. Enabling a configurable dump directory for all a...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Add a few functionality back to report connecting with data modules (example page layers and contextfilter)

A few functionalities where really helpful when using packages/cubes. Please add the folowing functionalities back to reporting where the data source is a data module. Add page layers and contextfilter functionality Add menu options to the sou...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

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

Visual indicator for Picklist cells in PAW Cube Viewer / Exploration (like the dropdown arrow in Arc)

Dear team, Current Situation / Problem In Arc (Architect), when a cell has a picklist defined (via element attribute, picklist cube or rules), there is a clear visual indicator directly in the cube grid — usually a small dropdown arrow (▼) inside ...
14 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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

Compress agent conversation to prevent overflow

Based on the current conversation and the data size returned by tools, the context window of the conversation may quickly overflow. Conversations should be compacted in order avoid overflow. Acceptance criteria: Long conversations and large amount...
9 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Planned for future release

Ability to add multiple filters in Grids

Ability to add multiple filters to a grid
9 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Functionality already exists

A feature/Functionality to export the List of Columns & filters for all Cognos reports

Generate the Report Specification Help to reduce the report redundancy/report Harmonization Business users- Easy for Users to understand via this mapping sheet
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Support Custom Fonts in Cognos Dashboards

IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboards currently do not support custom fonts, while this feature is available in reporting. This creates inconsistency across the platform and limits organizations from meeting corporate branding standards. Many enterprise...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted