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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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Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Db2 native and RACF security consistency requirement

This is especially important for shops like ours where for years DB2 native security and migrate to RACF security to be complaint with security audit and policies, and also new mainframe applications standards. There is multiple areas where curren...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Improve Default Failover Configuration and Centralized Management

We recently encountered a situation where, due to thread unavailability on a specific SDC, many jobs got stuck in the RED ACTIVE state. These jobs neither failed nor retried on the same SDC, resulting in no user notifications being triggered. Upon...
30 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Enable the use of MDX templates for dynamic subsets

Objective: To prevent the proliferation of redundant copies of similar books, we require the ability to define dynamic, parameterizable subsets within selector widgets. This functionality should reflect the flexibility and reusability of MDX templ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Retain Filter Preferences per User Login in Cognos Dashboards

Currently, users must manually reapply their preferred filters each time they log in or refresh the dashboard. Allowing Cognos to retain user’s last selected filters based on their loginID would save time, improve efficiency, and create a more per...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Give AI real Forward-thinking cognition, while cutting training and resources needed by 90%

Here are the primary benefits LFM contributes to general AI architecture: 1. Shift from Pattern Matching to Principled Derivation Traditional AI (including most large language models) excels at finding correlations and patterns in massive datasets...
about 1 month ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Timestamps in Logs / Live Log Stamping should be consistent format and flexibility to change to CST timings and Date sorting option

From PAW workbench, all log outputs include accurate timestamps should be consistent format and flexibility to change to CST timings and Date sorting option. At present In PAW workbench, all log outputs showing in GMT format, where is in PA local ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Random Key/Number Regenerates on Each Report Refresh

Hi team, We have observed that a random key or number is being generated each time the report is refreshed. This is causing confusion among users while using the application. This behavior is not expected, as the system should retain consistent va...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Fallback to Db2 when IDAA replication is lagging

When Db2 detects that IDAA replication is lagging under the integrated synchronization process, the query waits for replication to catch up before being served from the accelerator. We need an option controlled by a package parm or zparm that will...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review