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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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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 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Modify import export process Data classes

Modify the import export process for data classes free of XML and support regex or lookup process Sample file to be provided - see attached.
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Audit feature in PA to get insight on usage of application user wise

Hi Team, There is a requirement to get or extract audit data from Planning Analytics application logs. Customer needs audit feature capability for IBM PA. Just for reference they are expecting audit functionality similar like other BI tools Cognos...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

DB2 LUW: Intra-tablespace parallelism

Db2 V9.7 FP2: Intra-tablespace parallelism can reduce elapsed time for backups Starting in Version 9.7 Fix Pack 2, intra-tablespace parallelism was introduced and can be used during backups other than delta and incremental backups. Intra-tablespac...
over 8 years ago in Db2 3 Delivered

Automating Watsonx.ai installation experience

Why It's Useful: Automating the installation process reduces barriers to entry and onboarding for non-IBMers, SMEs, and new developers. This simplifies the user experience, leading to a more accessible product. Additionally, automation can lower c...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

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 2 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Cobol Scanner should recover when *, identification Area is present in column 72 of COBOL code

At my organization, some COBOL programs in production import copybooks, and those copybooks may themselves include other copybooks. For example, the program flow might look like: olila12p.cob → DPBAUTW0.cpy → DPSINSCC.cpy However, the Manta COBOL ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Add Support for Confluent JSON Schema in Kafka Stages

Only Avro is currently supported. Even if the data is read as text and the magic byte is removed and the text is transformed into JSON, the Kafka producer cannot serialize the JSON back to the Confluent JSON schema.
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Column Customization and Filtering on the Business Term Page

Our customer would like to view fields such as “Data Owner” as columns on the Business Term page and filter based on this information. Therefore, it is suggested to make the grid structure customizable (e.g., adding/removing columns, adjusting vis...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration