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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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Add option for user-defined fit line model in visualizations

Currently, we are able to draw fit lines in bubble charts via the Insights menu by enabling the Show fit line option. However, this option chooses the model of the fit line automatically to always be the "best fit" for the data as deemed by Cognos...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Logging for GDPRA / IT-Security

Log data as required by GPRA / IT-Security in a format form. Our IT-Security / data protection department request an logging for relevant activities. See the attached file. All applications has the to log the data in a defined formatted form. The ...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Pick/Choose Which "Warnings" Are Considered Fatal VS Acceptable

We would like to be able to pick and choose which LAT warnings are acceptable vs which require additional attention. Today, all warnings will generate a return code 4; however, some warnings (like ALAA061W) will completely eliminate a tablespace f...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Drill through filtering improvements between dashboards and reports

There is no option to have the filter on the report be dynamic enough to account for all the data filtering options that the dashboard could potentially send over via the drill. There should be better alignment if we are to use the drill from dash...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

WCA4Z in Z Open Editor needs to access IBM Cloud through a proxy server

When Z Open Editor clients can only access IBM Cloud through a proxy server, attempts to set the API key fail with an error: 2024-03-21T13:45:09.845-04:00 ERROR: 2024-03-21T17:45:09.845Z: watsonx Code Assistant error response: [/v1/wca/codegen/c2j...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Delivered

Ability to take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode

We would like cloud client administrators to have the ability to directly take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode. Once taken offline, we would also like to have some ability to run basic tests (e.g. test data s...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Enable and Change Logging Levels and Log Destinations/Formats for Pipelines and Stages

It's possible now to add log4j appenders to a Data Collector's sdc.properties file to set or change logging levels, writing to the sdc.log file, but the file is verbose and difficult to interpret. It would be great to be able to do this within the...
7 months ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration

Support for git hooks in Watson Studio to enable automatic script execution for git operations

Git offers hooks that are automatically executed during git operations (commit, push, merge, etc.). These hooks work with Watson Studio but they are located in .git folder and are not part of a git repository. As the .git folder is part of the ima...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Enable use of encrypted passwords to test connections to databases in the DVM JGate Server interface

A successful “Test Connection” must be completed to “Add new relational data source name and connection parameters” using the DVM JDBC Gateway Server interface. To perform the “Test Connection” a valid userid and password with access to the data s...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Ability for client to ingest Industry standards into IKC to accelerate standards utilsation in their Data Governance usecases

As discussed in 23rd Oct 2024 - slack DM between Pat O'Sullivan, Michael Loughran, Michael Szylar, Paul Kilroy, Anna Arato Area of ingesting Industry standards into IKC, well demonstrated by client use case in the 'Business Impact Statement' secti...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration