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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.

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Watson Translate Support for Rich Text Fields

Currently Watson does not support rich text fields. This is a substantial amount of text fields and would include most data stream integrations provided OOTB for OP. Not being able to auto-translate is extremely confusing for the users and is inco...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

UDC functionality in PAx. Using a subset reference in a DBRW function.

The feature is not new per say, because it works in Perspectives. The request is for the function to use a subset reference in a DBRW function (the UDC functionality). Then a user can create a workbook with unique references and analyses data in a...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Hive-HDFS Connector Impersonation Support.

In watsonx.data, all Hive-HDFS data is accessed with single user which is used for configuring data source. Client's security and audit policies requires impersonation, so that with this configuration, watsonx.data can impersonate the end user who...
11 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Ability to determine through Monitoring whether or not sufficient resources to start an R or Notebook runtime environment are available per node

As Data Scientist I frequently need to start runtime environments. Often these are small enough and they quite naturally fit the available resources. Sometimes however, there is a very large environment needed. We would like to easily see and dete...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Delivered

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Number of Occurrences for Alert

Alerts need to have the option to set a consecutive number of ocurrences for a check before it alerts. This is an option present in other monitoring tools and prevents a lot of false alerts. Example being number of connections, we have an threshol...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Automatic loading of data in spreadsheet files

Scenario: We uploaded spreadsheet files in Cognos Analytics and on these we created a data module. Now we need to update the data contained in the speadsheets weekly. Currently there is no functionality to upload automatically the spreadsheet files.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Dynamic Number of Time Series Forecasted in Watson Studio SPSS Modeler Flow

There is need to be able to run a forecasting job even if the amount of timeseries changes (without going to the modeler to manually select a Type for each series). This can happen (but is not limited to) when using MDX to import data from IBM Pla...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Missing Options in Set Editor in PAW/PAX

Set Editor does not have the following options in PAW or PAX, all below functionalities are available in Subset Editor. 1. No option to display All elements: The Set editor in PAW and PAX does not have the option of displaying all elements from th...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Lock an account for input in the account structure.

We would like the option to lock an account for input or import of data directly in the account structure. Account develops over time. Some accounts might not be valid to use over time. It might not be possible to merge these accounts, include the...
over 10 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration