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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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IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBM i does not support XML data type

1. Problem description – IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBMi does not support XML data type. When you want to replicate the data of a table using CDC, but the table contains a column of XML data type, CDC indicates that replication is n...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Enable DVM Access through Visual Studio Code

The Scenario: Currently we use Visual Studio Code for all development activities. Visual Studio Code acts as a single workstation. It is rich in libraries and plugins for distributed environments and Cloud environments. By using the ZOWE plug in, ...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Missing support for Microsoft SQL server 2025

When will SQL Server 2025 be supported as Content Server or Data Source? As of today SQL server 2022 is most recent listed in clarity reports. Customers upgrading to most recent Windows environments are asking for SQL 2025 support.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Planned for future release

Cognos Data Module - Restrict Table and Column Name Changes

When the Tables are imported into the Data Module Column Names with Characters such as underscore (_), dash (-), or slash (\) are replaced with the space character and the names are changed to Camel Case. Replacing Table and Column Names is not id...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable different sampling methods in Data Refinery

In the current version of Data Refinery we have noticed that there's no way to change the sampling method for the source data. It's always top rows only. With the additional limitation of 10000 samples only this makes the Data Refinery Flow view s...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Word wrap in Cube View in PAW

Our client wants to use comments in data cells and present them to their stockholders from PAW. Unfortunately, they are unable to show long comments in full length - and this issue prevents them from using PAW dashboards for their presentation. I'...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

Remove all filters option for new dashboards in Cognos Analytics

Currently there is no way to remove all filters applied to a new dashboard or a regular Cognos report (without Javascript). Especially with the new dashboards using the data tray filtering, an end user can easily lose track of what filters have be...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

ICP4D Should remove the connection reference for catalog assets/Deleted the referenced assets from catalog and project if the connection deleted from platform connection.

We are getting connection id details for catalog data asset in v3 API response but unable to find the connection details. Expectation: 1. ICP4D Should remove the connection reference for catalog assets if the connection deleted from platform conne...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data 2 Under review