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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.

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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Ability to upload ssl certificates to Cognos through the UI

Currently we need to open a support case in order to add SSL certificates (for data source connections etc.) to the cognos keystore. We would like to have the ability to upload the keys directly into the product.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Append functionality on AsciiOutput and TextOutput

Often a parent process is used to call a child process that produces output to a file. Currently you cannot append to the file and the file is overwritten in each subsequent call to the child process. Alternatively, you need to create multiple fil...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

When data is scanned using Quick Scan, customer would like to see options to be able to publish the data into a specific catalog and not the default catalog

Data Security Officer would like to restrict access to certain asset information to a group or division of people. Being able to publish discovered assets into catalog would be a big step towards achiveing zoning.
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Download PA book to Display all rows and Colums into PDF

System: Planning Analytics on CloudActor: User needing new feature Description: When trying to download of PA workbook , only downloads data into PDF that is visible .. Not all the rows and colums are downloaded into PDF and this is very critical ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Infosphere Data Replication for VSAM CFC1 & CFC3 CICS transactions should end at CICS Shutdown

Shutdown of the CICS 'Apply' CICS region is delayed by the CFC1 and CFC3 transactions. THese transactions should recognise that CICS is shutting down and end cleanly allowing CICS to shut down quicker.
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

CSV file support

One of our largest design patterns is to export data from a source system into a flat file (CSV, JSON, etc.). We use these flat files to populate our data warehouse ecosystem. Manta does not support CSV files, and this is a showstopper for us. Can...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Integrating IBM Watson Orchestrate with the IBM Deep Search and IBM Rational Coding services ( or Chat GPT 4 Codex)

This very important idea, it will satisfy the needs of the future AI Data Centers or Cloud Satellite, this will make the Programming, Maintenance, monitoring , testing the code verification easy, and will decrease the errors significantly. this wi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

ODBC - Bulk Load capability

CP4D - DataStage will be used in the data flows defined in our datalake using Postgres and Azure SQL. Because we are required to use the ODBC Connector for the connections we require the capability of doing Bulk Loads , exactly as this is offered ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

DOC-like row filters for table views in DO

Have the ability to create a set of filters on a table view that:a. As a set of filters that each can be added, edited and removed.b. Are persistent, i.e. do not disappear when switching views. c. Can be enabled/disabledd. Include logic like `cont...
about 7 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / Decision Optimization for Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Automátic column-level encryption at rest

In Europe we have strong laws (GDPR) protecting personal data. Nobody, even programers or DBA can access personal data if not from an audited program who grants individual access to each user able to see this information. As application examples, ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration