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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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Enable datatype information when converting Query Studio reports

When using the "Convert to report" option to convert Query Studio reports to Report Studio/editor, data items do not contain the XML tags required for several reporting options to function properly, namely filtering and inserting a calculation wit...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Provide means to limit number of retries following unable to establish connection

This idea is related to real life scenario we encountered in production - we raised a case but we were advised CDC is working as designed and we should raise an AHA idea. Currently we have a number of subscriptions defined/active across a number o...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Show meaningful error messages (when there is no access to platform connections)

Currently notebooks can not be started, when there is a storage volume from platform connections in the project and the user does not have access to platform connection The error message shown is "Notebook could not be loaded", which does not prov...
over 4 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 1 Delivered

Custom Functions (Methods) which return values into Turbo Integrator process

Creating custom functions would reduce amount of code required. Currently, TI process is a flat script, which sometime requires overwhelming coding where Object style coding could be utilized much better. Functions (methods) would be design to ret...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Do not start jobs with less than X cores per host

It is useful for when ptiles or slots do not fulfill your needs. Using an example, we have an MPI code that requests 100 cores. We don't tell LSF how to grab those cores, and sometimes it will go out and span across 12 nodes, taking 19 cores on on...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Request CA 11 Dashboards and Dashboard Maps support for Australian ABS Statistical Area level 1 mapping

CA11.06 supports most Australian Postcodes, however as post codes are defined for mail delivery they are not always reflective of geographic boundaries.The Statistical Local Area (SLA) is an Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) w...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Nodejs to DSX Notebooks

Node, Cloudant and Compose users are likely to be interested in DSX and Notebooks, but may not know what they need to know (Spark, Python, R, etc) to give it a try. Node together with PixieDust make for a very welcoming getting started experience ...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 6 Not under consideration

Enhanced selector widget functionality

We want to be able to write MDX code based on dimension members selections that a user has made from a regular dimension widget (the ones that have single click and subsets in them). However, today these selectors naturally do not save the current...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Log Report to enhance for import from staging table

Enhance Log Report to show information e.g. company code in the Data File box for import from staging table. In the current version this box is empty.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration