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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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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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extend MERGE syntax to allow Common Table Expressions (CTE)

The MERGE SQL statement is a new favourite SQL statement. But I also like to use Common Table Expressions (CTE). CTE can be used in other type of SQL (mostly SELECT) but CTE is not allowed with MERGE What is my idea? Allow MERGE to use CTE. I...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Driver and stub object of spss.pyspark.runtime to be eased developing Python extension.

It is difficult to develop on extension nodes or custom node dialog builder. want a driver object for development. I'd like to write a code with the other IDE such as VSCode or Pycharm outside of Modeler. So I request the driver and stub object of...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Automatic Version Control

Version control was a great feature, but people who use this UI aren't developers and they generally don't know they needed a back up until they make a mistake they don't know how to undo. I recommend that we keep snapshots of the client workspace...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

ADDI should include the load time of artifacts in the Project Inventory

Given that the ADDI has role separation between the ADDI admin for project setup/load and build and the Developers/Analysts using the AD client for generating graphs and reports, it is difficult to know when the file was loaded, if at all loaded. ...

Need RUN button enabled for pipelines created in trail job scenarios as well

This idea is to reference TS019010346 . Currently Run feature in Pipelines enabled for jobs and not for trail jobs scenario. when developers try to run the trail job with different set of parameters , this run button enabled feature helps signific...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Delivered

Create a join in a report, when having multiple datamodules added to the report

We are developing a report with multi pages and add multiple datamodules. We create a fine and nice looking dashboard (using a report). I have multiple datamodules added, for example HR and Finance. For some Finance graphs, we need to make a join ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

IBM watsonx Discovery to accept OAuth authentication mechanism

IBM watsonx Discovery is installed on dedicated Google Cloud Platform (GCP). UPS.com search application will make an API call to IBM watsonx Discovery to retrieve search results for user queries. UPS.com search application will use bearer token au...
6 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

CP4D - Super operator role specific to project

We created a new group and assigned Datastage Super Operator for that group. We created a new project in CP4D dev and assigned that role to that project. We have a user with Developer_BOA access to multiple projects. When this user get access for ...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Cascading Prompts in Dashboards

We have developed a dashboard that includes prompts that provide the user with levels of our company hierarchy (ex. Opco, Bus Unit, Region, Branch ). We want the users to be able to choose an Operational Unit, and this choice will filter the Bus U...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to migrate Dynamic Cubes between environments

Currently, it is not possible to migrate a Dynamic Cube from a Development / Test environment to a Production environment (other than Package and associated content). The cube model is attached to the data source, which is likely the reason this f...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration