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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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New UI Dashboard - Ability to display our own Cognos reports

The new UI only allows for 3 out of the box dashboards (My Assignments, Subscriber, Oversight) to be displayed. We want the ability to create our own dashboards using our own Cognos reports. This way we can make sure the dashboards more closely ma...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 7 Delivered

Preserve Ad hoc (unsaved) filters while the Grid view is still open

Users report frustration that in the TFUI, on a main FLV Grid, when they create an adhoc filter and apply it without specifying a name for the filter, it applies to the grid (showing "Unsaved filter" being applied). If user clicks on one of the gr...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

To tighten security, disable Users from accessing their credentials in secrets, but allow access from flight service only

Currently their are some security holes in the product in that users can read out credentials from secrets. This can happen accidentally or deliberately through a malicious user. Consequence is that credentials stored can be exposed and used elsew...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 5 Delivered

XStream agent should not try to activate supplemental logging for tables which already have it

We've seen the XStream Oracle agent trying to activate supplementar logging during an agent restart and during subscription restarts. On a specific customer environment this becomes very critical, because the application maintains open transaction...
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Discovery comprehensive handling of domain-specific dictionaries

Discovery is being positioned as replacement for R&R yet search (and not even WKS-based enrichment) cannot handle a comprehensive handling of domain-specific language, such as technical support. In R&R this was achieved by direct access to...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Delivered

Rest API to Close and Open Hosts

currently we only have get methods for host. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=SSZUMP_7.3.2/api/rest/ego/v1/api_reference/ego.htm can we expose host close ( with or without reclaim) and open under Rest API?
12 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered

Build a mechanism to validate Database compliance as per Nestle Standards by using DMC (Data Management Console) tool.

Why is it useful? DMC tool will help to interconnect all DB2 Server's at single point which we can call as central/master server and help to monitor the Database Compliance and server resource's utilization. Who would benefit from it? Database tea...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Delivered

Restore the Report Studio interface customization feature

It is no longer possible to configure the Report Studio interface based on user profile. This is very disturbing because many customers consider that the RS interface is too rich for the users and look for a functional perimeter close to Query Stu...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Jump to Sub-Action and close current Action / Follow on Actions for End of Conversation

The current End of a Conversation flow is robotic and does not give the end user a satisfactory experience at the end of their journey. The flow needs to be customizable so that it is consistent, and can gather feedback, start another journey, or ...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Delivered

Enhanced labelling of functions in the TFUI

The "X" function to close tabs and to close inline guidance are incorrectly labelled. (unlabelled and "Help Button respectively). These should accurately describe the functionality.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered