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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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Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
5 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Allow for custom auroralogging.properties file to define custom loggers that aren't overwritten by upgrades/fix packs/interim fixes

When implementing custom loggers we have to place these in the auroralogging.properties file. This works great until the file gets re-created during the installation of upgrades, fix packs or interim fixes. We would like a custom auroralogging.pro...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

Ingest json files from cloud object storage

In the current version of the product is not possible to ingest json files from the bucket itself, it has to be from an external table and being a bucket of thousands and thousands of files makes this option unfeasible, we need to be able to inges...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.data 0 Delivered

Track the export history

The export of user data (*) is currently not logged. Considering the fact that SaaS use is becoming more and more common these days, customers are highly concerned about the security of cloud services, and we believe that information leaks are an ...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Add ability for OpenPages/Cognos administrators to add custom images to server

We need to include a custom diagram image for each assessment, which will then be displayed in the Cognos PDF report for that assessment. Currently, the PDF report is unable to use the image if uploaded/attached to an object within OpenPages (only...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Auto create table or prompt tp create tables based on content in object storage bucket.

Add a function to crawl configured buckets for files which can be configured or registered as an available table and surface these as a task to approve or reject. The crawler will be smart enough to understand the connector/catalog type and what c...
about 2 years ago in watsonx.data 0 Delivered

Enable JWT authentication in watsonx.data

Currently authentication to watsonx.data through REST and JDBC can only be done by specifying a user and password. Customer does not allow user and password authentication for any of the business applications. When users log on to their desktop, t...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.data 1 Delivered

GDPR: Allow for file attachments to be anonymized as well (file name and contents)

GDPR API features introduced with version 8.0.0.1 do not allow for anonymizing file names and contents. At least for PDF, TXT, CSV and common MS Office files should be consider during search and replace (anonymization) as well.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Capability to filter on validation error messages during import

When validating for import a system configuration object, a validation error message appears hundreds of times, which reads: Duplicate EnumVal record with either name (...) or value (...) is defined in the Property (...) and Bundle (...). resolve ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Update password for OpenPages super admin profile "OpenPagesAdministrator" without triggering report framework regeneration

Action to be Performed in OpenPages Update password for OpenPages super admin profile "OpenPagesAdministrator" Existing Feature in OpenPages When we update password for "OpenPagesAdministrator" inside file "framework.properties" according to the p...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Delivered