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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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CDC Management Console Monitor Role Should be Able to Signon to Datastores

We would like to give the CDC Management Console and the Monitor role to an application support group. Our CDC does data replication from z/OS Db2 to Oracle. The support group would then be able to monitor, among other tasks, table refreshes and t...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Data Set history - Allow user to set how many runs to remember

Add capability to change how many/long run histories to save for data set refreshes. For a report, click the ellipses > Properties > Report tab > Advanced. The screen allows the user to change "Run History" from the default of 5 Occurence...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Improve implicit casting

Since V10 there is implicit casting, which is one hand a good feature, but on the other hand can lead to big performance problems. Improve the implicit casting so that the resulting datatype is indexable, e.g. make SELECT ... FROM T1 WHERE Integer...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Ordering Table Names and Column Names in Data Modules

When working in framework manager, I am able to sort columns alphabetically which makes the metadata easier for everyone to use. It looks like there isn't a way to do this in Data Modules in CA currently.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Manta support for Informatica DEI "Data Engineering Integration"aka BDM "Big Data Management"

Informatica DEI or BDM is used extensivesly at our organization to read/write data from Hive tables and move data around the enterprise. having the ability to extract lineage automatically from this system, via Manta, would simply the effort requi...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Natural Language to API Payload – AI Ordering Agent

In enterprise platforms, placing orders for subscription-based products (e.g., trial plans, add-ons, upgrades) requires navigating through complex forms or understanding the internal API payload structure. This creates friction for business users ...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data Set refresh though batch job

Data sets are having scheduleing properties to get refresh, However instead of defining individual data set refresh schedule it would be much helpful if we can use cognos jobs to include multiple data sets in a single batch and schedule refresh.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

When editing a report query, show query name

In Cognos 10 Report Studio, when working in a report query you could see the query highlighted in the query toolbar panel on the left side of the screen. In Cognos Analytics, the query starts highlighted, but as soon as any data item in the query ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered