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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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 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...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Remove PDF metadata

Sanitize PDF - Remove PDF metadata such as Author, Producer, and Creator from all PDFs created in Cognos either by reports and sent by mail or on the fly from portal. These fields exposed information about the environment or tools used to generate...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Feature Request for IBM Knowledge Catalog: Support for Metadata Import from AWS S3 with Deeply Nested Parquet Partition Structures

We have a data source stored on Amazon S3, and we have successfully established a connection to it within the IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) environment. The data is stored in Parquet format, and the cloud team has ensured that all required permissio...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

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...
13 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Planned for future release

Ability to add multiple filters in Grids

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

Extract automated lineage from some IFPC Command Tasks (unused, chmod, cp, mv, rm)

This is a follow up to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-60 that asks for automated extraction of all Command Tasks invoked by informatica power center. Since IFPC developers can invoke any executable in the command task, it is technically dif...
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Dashboard for StreamSets

Problem:Using the Operations Dashboard and Topologies does not give business an over all view of the platform usage. Would like to see the following on a dashboard:GroupsUsersJobsScheduled TasksSequencesFragmentsConnectionsRecords (rows transferre...
14 days ago in StreamSets Submitted

DB2 Load failure - unable to drain - issue -DIS USE in addition to -DIS CLAIMERS

When a DB2 load utility fails due to being unable to perform a drain, only a DIS CLAIMERS is issued at the end of the retries to show the correlation id of what was preventing the drain. Our shop's DDF work is categorized under common correlation ...
14 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Submitted

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
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud Submitted

An Admin Tool option where you can auto-generate CREATE TABLE SQL Statements based on IMS DBD Source code input

This would significantly simplify IMS to Db2 conversions at a time when IMS talent is becoming more difficult to find. The idea would require an "IMS DBD to Db2 Table Converter" option in the db2 admin tool, where you can paste IMS DBD source code...
14 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS Under review