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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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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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Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Extend policy and rule enforcement to Watson Studio

Policies and rules defined in the Knowledge Catalog do not extend to Watson Studio. The benefits of the catalog are the ability to quickly serve data teams assets from across the organisation to enable self-service analysis, "making data a trusted...
over 7 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Not under consideration

Extend policy and rule enforcement to Analytics Engine

Analytics Engine components such as Hive are an important part of the Data Lake story. Without Hive, external users are unable to query data in IBM Cloud Object Storage. However, Analytics Engine is not integrated with Watson Knowledge Catalog. Th...
over 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Microsoft Excel Integration Version

The export functionality in OpenPages is to a Microsoft Excel .xls which limits the content to be within 255 columns and ~65000 rows. For objects with large data counts as well as a large number of fields this limits the ability to seamlessly extr...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Delivered

QMF for Workstation or QMF for Websphere to have inline edit rows/column values and delete row values RFE 120690

In DataQuant a user can run a query against a table and then delete/change a row/column inline. In QMF a user needs to use the Table Editor tool to edit any values and the table editor does not allow for any predicts or data reordering functionali...
over 7 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

Should be able to schedule package enrichment

You can enrich a reporting package in 2 ways: automatic vs manual enrichment. The problem is that the steps to enrich a package (using either of the above selections) have to be executed manually. Someone needs to login, navigate to the package, m...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Folder Level Auditing Access Out of the Box

Currently out of the box Cognos audit data does not contain a clear and concise way to track user clicks at a folder level. We want to be able to easily track what folders a user has accessed out of the box. We want this solution without a complic...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Connection Manager Support for all Possible connection types (DRDA/SQLI/Mongo API/REST)

Connection manager needs to connect and function with all of the informix data not just the DRDA and SQL data portions.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Support S3 Buckets with Object Locks

Db2 already has an integration that supports directly writing/reading to/from to S3 buckets. Unfortunately this integration currently does not support buckets that use object locks. In such a case the following error pops up in the diagnostic log:...
about 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Output tabular data of a query into Excel format

In Cognos BI or versions prior to Cognos Analytics 11.x.x there was the option to run the output of a query during design time into an Excel format which made it easy for developers to see, massage and analyze the data as they go. Even though it i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered