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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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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.

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Consistent Navigational views for Calculations, Workflows and Views

Currently when viewing all the views, you can filter by Object Type or view name but similar functionality doesn't exist on Workflows and Calculations which makes it difficult to search for Workflows and Calculations. Just to summarize, we need th...
20 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Planned for future release

Knowledge Catalog allow users to create more robust and consistent rules by directly incorporating existing reference datasets,

For reference data, we propose enhancing them by enabling their use within data quality rule and definitions. This functionality would allow users to create more robust and consistent rules by directly incorporating existing reference datasets, pa...
11 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

DataStage incorporates multiple open-source components. To ensure system stability and operational consistency, any behavioral changes resulting from updates to these bundled open-source components should be managed and absorbed by the DataStage installer. This approach prevents disruptions during system deployment and post-deployment operations.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
3 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Under review

Layout Component Reference dialogue box improvement

Layout Component References are an amazing feature - they allow us to build reports from a standard library of components ensuring user interface consistency and code reuse across hundreds of reports. They reduce report build times and reduce main...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Automatically display the Primary hierarchy by default in Persona UI

Currently, when users open the catalog in Persona, the hierarchy field appears blank, requiring manual selection each time.It would be more efficient if the hierarchy defined as Primary in the model were displayed automatically by default. This en...
13 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

FISMA Audit Logging feature: Unified Correlation ID Framework Support for BA Cross-Component Traceability

To enable end-to-end observability and consistent audit traceability across Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) capabilities, Zen must provide a unified correlation ID service that can be consumed by all CP4BA components. https://bigblue.aha...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Under review

Consistent LLM Responses Through Parameter Control

The watsonsx.Orchestrate product backend leverages Watsonx AI models, which may have predefined default values. As a result, responses can vary for the same query, making it difficult to predict exactly what the LLM will generate within Orchestrat...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

QA and profiling Business Terms

We would like to define and apply data quality rules (e.g., completeness, uniqueness, and consistency) to governance artifacts, and more specifically glossary/business terms in CP4D. This would include: identifying and tracking data quality issu...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Request to introduce a new feature - Batch RDV Delete

Please refer to the support case for more details. Some operations may take longer to complete due to the data volume involved. Until such an operation is finished, its future effect is not yet presented by UI. That is because the Glossary has a d...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review