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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Add update Key functionality to Secure Gateway UI

Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics Cloud are often used by Companies who lack the IT infrastructure capable of hosting PA or CA. The use the Secure Gateway Client to connect to on-premise data sources can be complicated for these users to use...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IDAA Support for "CURRENT_SQLID"

We are not seeing long running queries being accelerated on the accelerator because all users are not accessing the base tables but rather a view which consists of the base table and a join to another table to retrieve the rights they have to port...
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Apache Spark support for Symphony MapReduce

Apache Spark is a data analytics cluster computing framework that has increased performance over the map reduce paradigm. Providing support for Apache Spark in the Symphony framework will provide more options to for data scientists for data under ...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered

Unexpected data truncation occurs in external JAVA stored procedures using VARCHAR type parameters

Unexpected data truncation occurs in external JAVA stored procedures using VARCHAR type parameters; whenever they contain any hex '00' character somewhere in the string data. If a JAVA stored procedure updates a variable such as x'C100C2', the pro...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Synergy between WD and CPD

I don't know the vision to sell watson discovery alone. Currently, WEXAC and FC customers are not very attractive because WD has to buy a CPD license and probably needs more resources. I wondered if I could somehow propose with synergies in other...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Google BQ connector to run SQL with project id

Currently, the BQ connector doesn't allow user to select data from other projects of the user's default project. And there is no where to choose project id. We are using multiple projects on GCP, and some projects own data, but some projects only ...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Adding many packages in package group is difficult in 11.1

When there are many packages that you are trying to add to a new data tag, the interface makes it very difficult. By adding the capability to select multiple packages this would be much easier.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to keep Data Sets in Query Server memory

There are times when Data Sets do not deliver desired performance. This is apparent on the first run of the Data Set based dashboards when Data Sets are large. The underlying technology is file-based columnar data store Apache Parquet where files ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for <a> tag in Cognos report specification version 15.0

Cognos Analytics does not support the usage of <a> tag within the rich text item. This would be useful to show OpenPages application's data content as some of the data may have hyperlinks embedded in them. If <a> tag is supported, then...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Save data to a CSV file available to preview with the project-lib library in R

According CPD doc ( https://www.ibm.com/support/producthub/icpdata/docs/content/SSQNUZ_current/wsj/analyze-data/project-lib-r.html#save-data ), user can use R project-lib to save data as a asset, but the file is serialized and not available for pr...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration