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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.

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

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



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Add IFCID 53 to ATF trace collection

Useful for catching SQLCODEs that prevent packages/threads from running (-805 for example).

Deadlines shown in Controller Web should be able to show other 24 clock format instead of hardcoded AM / PM

When showing the Deadline times in Controller Web, there is only the possibility today to show the AM /PM formats. It is not possible to show as a 24 hour clock format, for instance that 5:03PM could be shown as 17:03.
20 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

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...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Submitted

Get better feedback on OC job execution through API calls

When changes are applied in the CI or CD flow, it would be better if we can tailer the output we present in the pipeline towards our users.Today we can print a impact COMPARISON SUMMARY REPORT & COMPARISON COUNTS REPORT it would be nice if we ...
21 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS Under review

Improve deployment plan API usage

When you create or run a deployment plan, we receive an UUID from the API, with this UUID we can retrieve the status. However we can only use that UUID once. When we try to reuse it we get an error mentioning that the UUID no longer exists. At thi...
21 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS Under review

Import Business Metadata

My customer has business metadata (Business terms, free-text comments) created in project documentation that they wish to import into IKC to match up with the technical metadata scanned from data repositories. This idea is for an import mechanism ...
21 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Functionality already exists

Allow opening multiple instance of watsonx Orchestrate on the same browser (different tabs)

We have a premium subscription to watsonx Orchestrate and therefore, users access the wxO instances via the SaaS subscription console. When using this portal, we are not able to open more than one instance at a time in the same browser (different ...
23 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Allow customization of displayed content in inline dimension selectors (Subsets / Levels / Elements)

Dear team, Idea Description: In PAW Explorations and Cube Views, the content shown in inline dimension selectors currently depends on the placement of the dimension and offers almost no configuration options: When the dimension is placed in the ...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Melhoria de integração do Watsonx.Governance com IA e Dados

Hoje, sendo novo no mundo IBM, fica sendo muito confuso quando tratamos de governança de Dados e governança de IA no Watsonx.governance. São propósitos diferentes, quando falamos de Dados e IA, porém fica confuso quando tratamos do assunto de Gove...
23 days ago in watsonx.governance 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 ...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted