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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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FastMap to validate dependent picklists and hidden enum values

We'd like the ability to make FastMap imports do the following two extra validations:1) check that dependent picklist values match their controlling field values2) check that enum values are not currently listed as hidden values
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

WCA4Z - Enhance IBM ADDI with Enterprise-Scale Automation Capabilities

Based on our development setup and recent findings regarding the IBM ADDI component, we have identified several areas where enhanced automation capabilities would significantly improve our onboarding process and overall user experience: 1. RBAC an...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Consider AMD ccd in affinity string

Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Please add rowspan and colspan as conditional style properties in list and crosstab cells

There are many times where I need to hide or show specific cells in crosstabs or lists. If I were to hide cells in the crosstab rows, other cells may cause the entire table to deform. This can be replicated quite easily by having Node 1 | Node 2--...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Provide use case level authorization in addition to the existing user level authorization

The idea is a use case related authorization to provide a more fine granular means than the current user based authorization. What we are looking for is that for each user the Active Directory will maintain a list of use cases the users are allowe...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Delivered

Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

allow adding a downloadable data products that is sourced from uploaded CSV files (uploaded to a project in CP4D or directly to DPH)

Currently the only way to add a CSV product to DPH is of it is sourced from object storage siuch as azure adls, IBM clos or Amazon S3. The reason for this is the following: 1. add more flexibility to adding products (especially for demos or testin...
2 months ago in Data Product Hub 0 Future consideration

Support for associating files and data sets for COBOL programs that do not have file definitions

In COBOL programs (*1) that realizes file access by calling the subroutines responsible for the access method, there is a restriction that the file name to be accessed cannot be associated with the data set name. It is possible to define the assoc...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Job packing on GPUs when MIG is enabled

When MIGs (Multi-instance GPU) are enabled on a multi-GPU server, LSF should pack jobs with smaller number of MIGs on one physical GPU to keep a room for jobs with larger number of MIGs. Currently LSF is distributing the jobs on different physical...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

Make the UI actually usable

The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 4 Under review