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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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GDPR : deletion or anonymisation of a User name after the GDPR legal retention period or following a legal GDPR request from the end-user himself.

Hi,Following the European GDPR requirements, we should allow the capability within OpenPages, to suppress or at least anonymize the end-users personal informations ( name, surname, email address, phone number, etc ...) stored within OpenPages afte...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI Submitted

Ability to affect a particular color to the header and the tab of a TFUI in order to quickly identify it amongst many opened TFUI tabs

The customer would like to be able to affect a particular color to the tab and the header of a TFUI ( user task view ) either globally at the administrator level or locally at the user profile level, in order to be able to quickly spot on and iden...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted

Ability to revert data in workflows

This feature will help second line easily revert data submitted to them for review
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI Submitted

Correct welcome message in Controller Web. User name in stead of userID

This is more user friendly, looks more integrated and is then aligned with Cognos Analytics which displays the Name, in stead of the userID Please find in the attachment section a screen shot (CA_vs_CW.png) of Cognos Analytics Web and Controller W...
6 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Implicit and automatic reconnect to databases

Implicit and automatic reconnect to database in case of connectivity Failure(s) , aka cluster switch , database restart etc . Q-Replication scenarios: 1) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Db2 LUW2) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Oracle Q-REP apply process ...
16 days ago in Db2 / Replication Submitted

blimits command functionality improvements

Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Future consideration

Implement version numbering for a.o. Views, Workflows, Calculations

When transferring versions of the objects mentioned, it is important to be able to keep track of the version you are working on and want to deploy (DEV --> UAT --> PROD) and to allow tracking of the versions IN OpenPages and not outside Open...
4 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Easy replication of Canvas Templates

To enable all objects of a certain type (e.g. Process, Risk etc.), it would be extremely beneficial to allow applying a canvas template to a bulk selection of these objects. Also, it would help to be able to export and import Canvas Templates betw...
4 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Planned for future release

DataSet - Set the aggregation operator for measure computed with count distinct to the aggregation method set in properties

1. Create a dataset with one of the column defined as count(distinct ...) Modify the item in Query and set aggregation as Total 2. Refresh the dataset 3. Create a dashboard As shown in the screen capture, aggregation method is set to Minimum Agreg...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Implement rate limiting

wxO is used externally in B2C mode, asking for rate limiting for several aspects : - Security, to avoid a DoS attack and wxO to become less responsive,- Consumption, avoiding consuming too many token, and having a too long conversation to redirect...
11 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review