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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.

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.

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Improve Error Logging & Line Number Traceability in SAS connector Parsing

Problem Statement Currently, when parsing errors occur in the Manta SAS Connector, the logs do not provide sufficient details about the root cause. For Example The error message often lacks the specific SAS code line number and the file name whe...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

Prevent package invalidation after ALTER TABLE ROTATE

System: Production management databaseActor: Developers maintaining the databaseDescription: Our customer runs a 24/7 production management OLTP system with IMS V10 and DB2 V9 for z/OS on which its transaction rate gets as high as 10 trans/sec, an...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration

Feature enhancement to monitor object detection models.

Openscale allows us to monitor the quality of machine learning models for classification, regression, and time series.There is a valuable opportunity to extend its capabilities to include monitoring and explainability for object detection models. ...
about 2 years ago in Openscale 0 Not under consideration

Table-Level QMAP Properties for Automated Q Replication Management

In modern, automated database environments, schema changes and table deployments are often managed via CI/CD pipelines using metadata or declarative configuration. Currently, registering and deregistering tables with the correct source and target ...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Under review

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Chart - Dark Outlook

Idea Details Problem statement / pain points (real-life scenario): When Cognos reports containing charts are distributed by email, the legend text is not visible for users who have enabled dark mode in Outlook.For example, in the attached screensh...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

#emea #csm #mea Integrate IBM Knowledge Catalog Governance into DataStage Flows

Issue: Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data, data protection rules defined within Watson Knowledge Catalog are not directly applied to DataStage flows, even when governed assets from the catalog are used. This creates confusion and a sense that no...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 3 Future consideration

Enhanced Contextual Identifier and Input Access for Tools

Currently, tools integrated with the IBM Orchestrate platform do not have direct access to contextual identifiers such as the thread_id or agent context inputs associated with the ongoing conversation. Introducing direct access to these elements w...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Delivered

Consistency between report and dashboard behavior - Edit mode

You have to save dashboard to alternate location to edit the dashboard if you don't have write permissions on that folder. This is different from reporting, I can still edit the report, but it will force me to save to a new location. I think consi...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration